| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 страници
...first form of the work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the...fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many-engined, — they are precious, great : but what do they become ? Agamemnon, the many... | |
| 1843 - 592 страници
...eloquent Carlyle, and it is well worthy our reflection, for it is an idea teeming with truth. He adds, " In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voiee of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 страници
...first form of the work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the...of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fl«ets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many-engined,—they are precious,... | |
| William R. Lyth - 1854 - 142 страници
...the whole Past Time; the articulate audihle voice of the Past when the body and material nuhxtauce of it has altogether vanished like a dream Mighty...cities high domed, many engined — they are precious, grrat : but what do they become? Agamemnon, the mauy Agamemnons, Pericleses, and their Greece; all... | |
| William R. Lyth - 1854 - 132 страници
...thoughts on the same subject by the very thoughtful but eccentric authorof " Heroes — Hero Worship" " In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the...audible voice of the Past when the body and material suhstance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and aimies, harbours aud arsenals,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 страници
...first form of the work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the...fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, manyengined, — they are precious, great : but what do they become ? Agamemnon, the many... | |
| Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 страници
...sentiments, and speech, of those regal intellects that are born to rule mankind. " In books," says Carlyle, "lies the soul of the whole past time: the articulate,...substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream." Books have proved themselves to be monuments more enduring than brass or marble. The Parthenon is in... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 328 страници
...first form of the work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the...armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high -domed, many-engined, — they are precious, great: but what do they become? Agamemnon, the many Agamemnons,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - 408 страници
...first form of the work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the...fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, manyengined, — they are precious, great : but what do they hecome ? Agamemnon, the many... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1872 - 1046 страници
...knowledge, to power. ' In Books,' says Carlyle, 'lies the soul of tiwhole Past Time ; the articúlate. audible, voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of .: has altogether vanished like i dream. . . . No magic Лине is stranger than a Book. All thai... | |
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