Thus, like a God-created, fire-breathing spirit-host, we emerge from the inane ; haste stormfully across the astonished earth ; then plunge again into the inane. Critical Miscellanies - Page 229by John Morley - 1871 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Chatterton Coupland - 1895 - 746 pages
...'quick-succeeding grandeur, through the unknown Deep. Thus, like a God-created, fire-breathing Spirit-host, we emerge from the Inane; haste stormfully across...astonished Earth; then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage: can the Earth, which is but... | |
| Samuel Silas Curry - 1895 - 316 pages
...quick-succeeding grandeur, through the unknown Deep. Thus, like a God-created, fire-breathing Spirit-host, we emerge from the Inane ; haste stormfully across...astonished Earth; then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage: can the Earth, which is but... | |
| William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1905 - 1454 pages
...falling tears, and long since turned to dust. "THUS, LIKE A GOD-CREATED, FIRE-BREATHING, SPIRIT-HOST, WE EMERGE FROM THE INANE ; HASTE STORMFULLY ACROSS...ASTONISHED EARTH; THEN PLUNGE AGAIN INTO THE INANE— 'WE ARE SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE OF, AND OUR LITTLE LIFE IS ROUNDED WITH A SLEEP'"— Carlyle... | |
| Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1901 - 278 pages
...— во unspeakable, were never more dramatically uttered than in these few sententious words — 'We emerge from the Inane ; haste stormfully across...astonished Earth ; then plunge again into the Inane.' Science, however, does not speak of him so gratefully. She rides over him with great haste in these... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 292 pages
...quick-succeeding grandeur, through the unknown Deep. Thus, like a God-created, fire-breathing Spirit-host, we emerge from the Inane ; haste stormfully across...astonished Earth ; then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage : can the Earth, which is but... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 524 pages
...stamped-in ; the last ' Rear of the host will read traces of the earliest Van. ' But whence ? — O Heaven, whither ? Sense knows not ; ' Faith knows not ; only that it is through Mystery to 25 ' Mystery, from God and to God. " We are such stuff ' As Dreams are made on, and our little Life... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 522 pages
...quick-succeeding 'grandeur, through the unknown Deep. Thus, like a 15 ' God-created, fire-breathing Spirit-host, we emerge from ' the Inane; haste stormfully across the astonished Earth ; 'then plunge again jnto the Inane. Earth's mountains ' are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage : can ' the... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1897 - 604 pages
...quick-succeeding grandenr through the unknown Deep. Thus, like a God-created, fire-breathing Spirit-host, we emerge from the Inane ; haste stormfully across...astonished Earth ; then plunge again into the Inane. Man Í mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage : can the Earth, which is but... | |
| Hector C. Macpherson - 1897 - 172 pages
...quicksucceeding grandeur, through the unknown Deep. Thus, like a God-created, fire-breathing Spirit-host, we emerge from the Inane; haste stormfully across...astonished Earth; then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage ; can the Earth, which is but... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 502 pages
...quick-succeeding grandeur, through the unknown Deep. Thus, like a God-created, fire-breathing Spirit-host, we emerge from the Inane; haste stormfully across...astonished Earth; then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage : can the Earth, which is but... | |
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