 You are dispensing that which is rarest, namely, the simplest truths, — truths which lie next to consciousness, and which only the Platos and Goethes perceive. I look for the hour with impatience when the vehicle will be worthy of the spirit, — when...  Maffia and Omertà - Page 886by Richard Bagot - 1901 - 13 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1883 - 1102 pages
...Goethes perceive. I look for the ' hoar with impatience when the vehicle will be worthy of the spirit — when the word will be as simple, and so as resistless, as the thought — and, in short, when your words will be one with things. I have no hope that you will find suddenly... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1883 - 308 pages
...Goethes perceive. I look for the hour with impatience when the vehicle will be worthy of the spirit — when the word will be as simple, and so as resistless, as the thought, — and, in short, when your words will be one with things." Then playfully extracting1 the sting from... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 394 pages
...Goethes perceive. I look for the hour with impatience when the vehicle will be worthy of the spirit, — when the word will be as simple, and so as resistless, as the thought, — and, ill short, when your words will be one with things. I have no hope that you will find suddenly... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 106 pages
...Goethes perceive. I look for the hour with impatience when the vehicle will be worthy of the spirit, — when the word will be as simple, and so as resistless, as the thought, — and, in short, when your words will be one with things. I have no hope that you will find suddenly... | |
 | 1883 - 648 pages
...emitting. " I look for the hour with impatience when the vehicle will be worthy of the spirit, — when the word will be as simple, and so as resistless, as the thought." So little did he, though the first to welcome the new and strange phenomenon, really comprehend its... | |
 | 1883 - 896 pages
...Goethes perceive. I look for the hour with impatience when the vehicle will be worthy of the spirit, when the word will be as simple, and so as resistless, as the thought, — and, in short, when your words will be one with things. Like other wise men, he presently learnt... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 pages
...Goethes perceive. I look for the hour with impatience when the vehicle will be worthy of the spirit, — when the word will be as simple, and so as resistless, as the thought, — and, in short, when your words will be one with things. I have no hope hope that yon will find... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1887 - 360 pages
...repelled by the oddity of the vehicle chosen to convey " this treasure," and looks forward to the time " when the word will be as simple, and so as resistless, as , the thought." Indeed, Emerson was for many years dissatisfied with the strange liberties which his friend took with... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 pages
...Lockism.' But the visions of the two took a very different colouring. Emerson praises Sartor Resartus with a characteristic qualification. Carlyle's grim...thought ' ; for the hour, that is, when a Carlyle will be an Emerson. To find effective utterance for these ' simplest truths ' is, in fact, Emerson's... | |
 | 1901 - 884 pages
...coloring. Emerson praises "Sartor Resartus" with a characteristic qualification. Carlyle's grim humor and daring flights of superabundant imagination cover...has an uncomfortable trick of sinking into a truism. If you try to make it something more it is apt to collide with other simple truths. The function of... | |
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