 Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them; they cannot stop themselves; sleep cannot still them; madness only makes them go faster; death alone can break into the case, and, seizing the ever-swinging pendulum, which we call...  The Modern Course in English: English Grammar - Page 70by Steadman Vincent Sanford, Peter Franklin Brown - 1914 - 322 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1859 - 868 pages
...relief. It is like taking the cat in your lap after holding a squirrel." " Our brains are seventy year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection." If the following is a true description of the matter, we are... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...thinner, until at last the veil of flesh is threadbare, and, still singing, they drop it and pass onward. Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our will cannot... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; oui will cannot stop them ; they cannot stop themselves , sleep cannot still them ; madness only makes... | |
 | 1860 - 908 pages
...upon those whose icy natures are doomed to eternal congealment, — Cragon. SEVENTY- YEAR CLOCKS. OUB brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurreetion. Tic-tac ! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1866 - 848 pages
...quotations by a short specimen taken from his most amusing book, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table : — " Our brains are seventy-year clocks ; the angel of...all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the angel of resurrection. " Tic-tac, tic-tac, go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1866 - 852 pages
...picturesque pas>ag'ï in the "Autocrat of the Breakfast-table " illustrates this : " Our brains aro seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them...all, then closes the case and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our will cannot... | |
 | 1869 - 376 pages
...19. Parse must commit. 20. With what does is agree ? THE TIRELESS BRAIN. Our brains are severity-year clocks. The angel of life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the angel of the resurrection. Tic-tac ! tictac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 pages
...thinner, until at last the veil of flesh is threadbare, and, still singing, they drop it and pass onward. Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot... | |
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