 | Education - 1835 - 444 pages
...that pinest in the imprisonment of the actual [life] and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom to rule and create, know this of a truth, the thing...with thee, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.' Truly, if man sees not man through himself, he sees him not at all ; the things sought, and the things... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1837 - 322 pages
...thou, that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create* know this of a truth :...have vision, the whole members are in bonds. Divine moment, when over the tempest-tost soul, as once over the wild-weltering Chaos, it is spoken : ' Let... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 650 pages
...actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom -wherein to rule and create, tnow this of a troth : the thing thou seekest is already with thee, " here or nowhere," couldst thou only see !' — Jb. p. 202. Here again, we fear, Mr. Carlyle requires to be translated. But if he means, as... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 658 pages
...0 thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth :...with thee, " here or nowhere," couldst thou only see !' — Ib. p. 202. Here again, we fear, Mr. Carlyle requires to be translated. But if he means, as... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 490 pages
...thou that ' pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to ' the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of ' a truth...it is with man's Soul as it was with Nature : the begin' ning of Creation is — Light. Till the eye have vision, the whole ' members are in bonds. Divine... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...thou that ' pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to ' the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of ' a truth...it is with man's Soul as it was with Nature : the begin' ning of Creation is—Light. Till the eye have vision, the whole 'members are in bonds. Divine... | |
 | Sydney Warburton - Character - 1849 - 300 pages
...O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth —...thee, 'here or ; nowhere,' couldst thou only see." When you examine the above assertions by the light of Scripture, can you contradict their truth ? Let... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1850 - 676 pages
...nowhere," couldst thou only see ! ' But it is with man's Soul as it was with Nature : the begin' ning of Creation is — Light. Till the eye have vision, the whole ' members are in bonds. Divine moment, when over the tempest' tost Soul, as once over the wild-weltering Chaos, it is spoken : ' Let... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1856 - 386 pages
...thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the Gods for a kingdom, wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth:...with thee, " here or nowhere," couldst thou only see! Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...thou that pinest in ' the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods ' for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth :...it is with man's Soul as it was with Nature : the begin' ning of Creation is — Light. Till the eye have vision, the whole ' members are in bonds. Divine... | |
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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, "here or nowhere, 
