 Let some beneficent divinity snatch him, when a suckling, from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time, that he may ripen to his full stature beneath a distant Grecian sky. And having grown to manhood, let him return, a...  Selections from the Edinburgh Review ... - Page 17edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | 1827 - 698 pages
...divinity snatch him, when a suckling, from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time, that he may ripen to his full stature...of Agamemnon, to purify it. The matter of his works hn will take from the present, hut their form he will derive from a nobler time ; nay, from beyond... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1825 - 368 pages
...nity snatch him when a suckling from the breast * of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a ' better time ; that he may ripen to his full stature...it by ' his presence; but dreadful like the son of Aga' inemnon to purify it. The Matter of his works ' he will take from the present ; but their Form... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1825 - 374 pages
...breast * of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a ' better time ; that he may ripen to his fall stature ' beneath a distant Grecian sky. And having...it by ' his presence; but dreadful like the son of Aga' memnon to purify it. The Matter of his works ' he will take from the present; but their Form he... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1833 - 334 pages
...his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time ; that he may ripen to his full tt it ire beneath a distant Grecian sky. And having grown to...Agamemnon to purify it. The Matter of his works he will take from the present ; but their Form he will derive from a nobler time, nay, from beyond all time,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 328 pages
...divinity snatch him when a suckling from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time ; that he may ripen to his full stature...Agamemnon to purify it. The Matter of his works he will take from the present ; but their Form he will derive from a nobler time, nay, from beyond all time,... | |
 | Charles Follen - 1837 - 336 pages
...divinity snatch him when a suckling from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time ; that he may ripen to his full stature...Agamemnon to purify it. The Matter of his works he will take from the present ; but their Form he will derive from a nobler time, nay, from beyond all time,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 476 pages
...divinity snatch him, when a suckling, from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time, that he may ripen to his full stature...Agamemnon, to purify it. The matter of his works he will take from the present, but their form he will derive from a nobler time; nay, from beyond all time,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 468 pages
...divinity snatch him, when a suckling, from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time ; that he may ripen to his full stature...but, dreadful like the son of Agamemnon, to purify it ! ' On the whole, Schiller has no trace of vanity ; scarcely of pride, even in its best sense, for... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1839 - 604 pages
...divinity snatch him, when a suckling, from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time, that he may ripen to his full stature...of Agamemnon, to purify it. The Matter of his works ho will take from the present ; but their Form he will derive from a nobler time, nay, from beyond... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...divinity snatch him, when a suckling, from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time, that he may ripen to his full stature...manhood, let him return, a foreign shape, into his country ; not, however, to delight it by his presence ; but dreadful, like the son of Agamemnon, to... | |
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