 He, who has been born, has been a First Man ;' has had lying before his young eyes, and as yet unhardened into scientific shapes, a world as plastic, infinite, divine, as lay before the eyes of Adam himself. If Mechanism, like some glass bell, encircles...  Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best Articles in that ... - Page 1051835Full view - About this book
 | 1829 - 566 pages
...before the eyes of Adam himself. If Mechanism, like some glass bell, encircles and imprisons us, if the soul looks forth on a fair heavenly country which...wanting, for it dwells in man's soul, and this last is still here. Are the solemn temples, in which the Divinity was once visibly revealed among us, crumbling... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 pages
...at once perceived it to be only as a glass bell, which shut me up in the exhausted airless space : One bold stroke to break the bell in pieces, and thou art delivered ! No sooner thought than tried. I drew off the mask, and on all occasions acted as my heart directed.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 468 pages
...before the eyes of Adam himself. If Mechanism, like some glass bell, encircles and imprisons us, if the soul looks forth on a fair heavenly country which...wanting, for it dwells in man's soul, and this last is still here. Are the solemn temples in which the Divinity was once visibly revealed among us, crumbling... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...before the eyes of Adam himself. If Mechanism, like some glass bell, encircles and imprisons us ; if the soul looks forth on a fair heavenly country which...wanting, for it dwells in man's soul, and this last is still here. Are the solemn temples in which the Divinity was once visibly revealed among us, crumbling... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1840 - 350 pages
...I at once perceived it to be only as a glass bell, which shut me up in the exhausted airless space: One bold stroke to break the bell in pieces, and thou art delivered ! No sooner thought than tried. I drew off the mask, and on all occasions acted as my heart directed.... | |
 | William Dearden - 1844 - 284 pages
...before the eyes of Adam himself. If Mechanism, like some glass bell, encircles and imprisons us; if the soul looks forth on a fair heavenly country which it cannot reach, and pines, aud in its scanty atmosphere is ready to perish,— yet the bell is but of glass ; • one bold stroke... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1848 - 672 pages
...at once perceived it to be only as a glass bell, which shut me up in the exhausted airless space : One bold stroke to break the bell in pieces, and thou art delivered I No sooner thought than tried. I drew off the mask, and on all occasions acted as my heart directed.... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...before the eyes of Adam himself. If Mechanism, like some glass bell, encircles and imprisons us, if the soul looks forth on a fair heavenly country which...wanting, for it dwells in man's soul, and this last is still here. Are the solemn temples in which the Divinity was once visibly revealed among us, crumbling... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pages
...to us, in all cases, a groundless feeling. We have a faith in the imperishable dignity of man ; in Not the invisible world is wanting, for it dwells in man's soul, and this last is still here. Are the solemn temples in which the Divinity was once visibly revealed among us, crumbling... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...before the eyes of Adam himself. If Mechanism, like some glass bell, encircles and imprisons us, if the nting was an still here. Are the solemn temples in which the Divinity was once visibly revealed among us, crumbling... | |
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