 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...every thinker, still very literally lives ; can be called-up again into life. No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 pages
...Runes, the latest form! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fl«ets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many-engined,—they are precious,... | |
 | William R. Lyth - 1854 - 142 pages
...the whole Past Time; the articulate audihle voice of the Past when the body and material nuhxtauce of it has altogether vanished like a dream Mighty...fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities high domed, many engined — they are precious, grrat : but what do they become? Agamemnon, the mauy... | |
 | William R. Lyth - 1854 - 132 pages
...— they are precious, great : but what do they become P Agamemnou, the many Agamemnons, Perieleses, and their Greece; all is gone now to some ruined fragments, dumb moving wrecks and blocks : but ttie Bonks of Greece ! There GreeCB to every thinker still very literally... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pages
...Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...every thinker, still very literally lives ; can be called-up again into life. No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought,... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 pages
...mankind. " In books," says Carlyle, "lies the soul of the whole past time: the articulate, audible voice of the past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream." Books have proved themselves to be monuments more enduring than brass or marble. The Parthenon is in... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 384 pages
...THE VOICE OF THE PAST. In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high domed, many engined, — they are precious, great : but what do they become ? Agamemnon, the many... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1861 - 234 pages
...dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many engined, — they are precious, great : but what do they become ? Agamemnon, the many Agamemnons, Pericleses, aud their Greece ; all is gone now to some ruined fragments, dumb mournful wrecks and blocks : but... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 328 pages
...Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high -domed, many-engined, — they are precious, great: but what do they become? Agamemnon, the many... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - 408 pages
...Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...manyengined, — they are precious, great : but what do they hecome ? Agamemnon, the many Agamemnons, Pericleses, and their Greece; all is gone now to some ruined... | |
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In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. 
