Carlyles' Works: Sartor Resartus. Heroes and hero-worshipEstes and Lauriat, 1884 |
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Common terms and phrases
Adamite altogether amid Auscultator Baphometic beautiful become believe biped body centuries Christian Clothes Cromwell Dante dark dead deep Devil discern divine earnest Earth Editor England Eternity everywhere existence eyes faculty fancy feeling French Revolution Godlike Goethe hand hast heart Heaven Hero Hero-worship Herr Heuschrecke History Hofrath infinite Jötuns kind King Koreish light living look Luther Mahomet man's Mankind mean ment Mystagogue mysterious mystic Nature never Nevertheless noble Norse nowise Odin old Norse once Paganism perhaps Philosophy Poet poor Professor Prophet Protestantism Puritans quackery readers Religion round rude Sartor Resartus Satanic School seems Shakspeare silent sincere Society sorrow sort soul speak spiritual stand strange Symbols Teufelsdröckh thee thereof things Thor thou thought tion Toy-boxes true truth Ulfila Universe unspeakable utterance visible Voltaire Weissnichtwo whereby wherein whole wild withal wonder words worship Wuotan young
Popular passages
Page 299 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 40 - Being's floods, in Action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion ! Birth and Death, An infinite ocean ; A seizing and giving The fire of Living : 'Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by.
Page 144 - I see a glimpse of it!" cries he elsewhere: "there is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness: he can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness ! Was it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered; bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the Godlike that is in Man, and how in the Godlike only has he Strength and Freedom?
Page 142 - Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness ; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Page 242 - There is but one Temple in the Universe," says the devout Novalis, "and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than that high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven when we lay our hand on a human body ! " This sounds much like a mere flourish of rhetoric; but it is not so.
Page 200 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.
Page 145 - Wilt thou help us to embody the divine Spirit of that Religion in a new My thus, in a new vehicle and vesture, that our Souls, otherwise too like perishing, may live ? What ! thou hast no faculty in that kind ? Only a torch for burning, no hammer for building? Take our thanks, then, and — thyself away.
Page 29 - Debts ; and whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men ; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him, — to the length of sixpence.
Page 164 - Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal. Speech too is great, but not the greatest. As the Swiss Inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speech is silvern, Silence is golden); or as I might rather express it: Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity. " Bees will not work except in darkness ; Thought will not work except in Silence: neither will Virtue work except in Secrecy. Let not...
Page 48 - what is man? An omnivorous Biped that wears Breeches. To the eye of Pure Reason what is he? A Soul, a Spirit, and divine Apparition. Round his mysterious ME, there lies, under all those wool-rags, a Garment of Flesh (or of Senses), contextured in the Loom of Heaven; whereby he is revealed to his like, and dwells with them in UNION and DIVISION; and sees and fashions for himself a Universe, with azure Starry Spaces, and long Thousands of Years. Deep-hidden is he under that strange Garment; amid Sounds...