 | 1878 - 446 pages
...poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive takes the impression of the...partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities—a God that made all things—man's immaterial and immortal nature—and a world of weal... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1879 - 230 pages
...poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave !" On reading this beautiful and suggestive letter, an ornithologist... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 516 pages
...Poetry. Tell me, my dear Friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, that, like the .¿Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the...us above the trodden clod? I own myself partial to these proofs of those awful and important realities — a God, that made all things — man's immaterial... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 620 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the JEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave !" On reading this beautiful and suggestive letter, an ornithologist... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1895 - 88 pages
...poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.' Force and fineness of understanding are often spoken of as something... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1895 - 300 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.' Force and fineness of understanding are often spoken of as something... | |
 | Frances Bennett Callaway - 1895 - 264 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are we a piece of machinery, which like the JEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident? Or do these working argue something within us above the trodden clod? I own myself partial to such proofs of those... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 104 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are we a piece of machinery which, like the asolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave." Force and fineness of understanding are often spoken of as something... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 304 pages
...my dear friend, to what- can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the -55olian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.' Force and fineness of understanding are often spoken of as something... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 pages
...the rest of the day in meditation and prayer." Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the yEolian harp, passive takes the impression of the passing...partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities—a God that made all things—man's immaterial and immortal nature—and a world of weal... | |
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Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ; or do these workings argue Something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important... 
