 Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh. That warrior on his strong war-horse, fire flashes through his eyes; force dwells in his arm and heart: but warrior and war-horse are a vision; a revealed Force, nothing more. Stately they tread the Earth, as if...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 430edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Theology - 1837 - 424 pages
...revealed force, nothing more. Stately they tread the earth, as if it were a firm substance. Fool ! The earth is but a film ; it cracks in twain, and warrior...while and they are not, their very ashes are not." One word from the chapter on Dandies, who are defined to be " Clothes-wearing men, or men whose trade,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1837 - 322 pages
...revealed force, nothing more. Stately they tread the earth, as if it were a firm substance. Fool ! the earth is but a film ; it cracks in twain, and warrior and war-horse sink beyond plum23* met's sounding. Plummet's? Fantasy herself will not follow them. A little while ago they were... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...Force, nothing more. Stately • they tread the Earth, as if it were a firm substance : ' fool ! the Earth is but a film ; it cracks in twain, and ' warrior...ashes are not. ' So has it been from the beginning, BO will it be to ' the end. Generation after generation takes to itself ' the Form of a Body ; and... | |
 | 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
...In the language of the old heathen poet — ' Jupiter est quodcunque vides, quodcunque movetur.' 1 So has it been from the beginning, so will it be to...generation takes to itself the form of a body, and forth issuing from Cimmerian night on heaven's missions APPEARS. What force and fire is in each he... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 328 pages
...nothing more. Stately ' they tread the Earth, as if it were a firm substance : ' fool ! the Earth is T>ut a film ; it cracks in twain, and ' warrior and war-horse...while and they ' are not, their very ashes are not. ' Sn has it been from the beginning, so will it be to ' the end. Generation after generation takes... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 260 pages
...Force, ' nothing more. Stately they tread the Earth, as if it were a ' firm substance : fool ! the Earth is but a film ; it cracks in ' twain, and warrior and war-horse sink beyond plummet's sound' ing. Plummet's 1 Fantasy herself will not follow them. A ' little while ago they were not ;... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 490 pages
...Force, ' nothing more. Stately they tread the Earth, as if it were a ' firm substance : fool ! the Earth is but a film ; it cracks in ' twain, and warrior and war-horse sink beyond plummet's sound' ing. Plummet's 1 Fantasy herself will not follow them. A ' little while ago they were not ;... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...revealed Force, ' nothing more. Stately they tread the Earth, as if it were a ' firm substance: fool! the Earth is but a film ; it cracks in ' twain, and warrior and war-horse sink beyond plummet's sound' ing. Plummet's ? Fantasy herself will not follow them. A ' little while ago they were not; a... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 594 pages
...revealed force — nothing more. Stately they tread the Earth as if it were a firm substance : fool! the Earth is but a film ; it cracks in twain, and warrior and war-horse sink beyond plummetssounding. Plummets! Phantasy herself will not follow them. A little while and they were not... | |
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