 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...  Essay on Burns - Page 28by Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 84 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 520 pages
...wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover, in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell...something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities — a GOD that made all things — man's... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pages
...wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey-plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like, the enthusiasm of devotion, or poetry....like the Eolian harp, passive takes the impression ot the passing accident ? Or do these workings arfie something within us above the trodden clod ? own... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the endiusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to...takes the impression of the passing accident ? Or do diese workings argue something widiin us above the trodden clod ? ' II. p. 195 — 197. To this we... | |
 | 1828 - 722 pages
...wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell...owing. Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the . lv>li;m harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ? or do these workings argue... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805 - 908 pages
...mixing cadence of a troop of grey plovers, in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Arc we a piece of machinery, which, like an Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 506 pages
...wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell...something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities — a GOD that made all things — man's,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 622 pages
...autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Te^l me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are...something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities — a GOD that made all things — man's... | |
 | John Evans - 1807 - 318 pages
...cadence of a troop of grey-plovers ia an antumnal morning, without feeling an ele<' vation of sool like the enthusiasm of devotion, or poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to wlmt can this he owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive takes the... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...wild mixing cadence of a troop of grey plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell...argue' • something within us above the trodden clod ? * II. p. 195—197. To this we may add the following passage, as a part, indeed, of the same picture.... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 458 pages
...wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. Tell...workings argue something within us above the trodden clod ?" II. p. 195—197. To this we may add the following passage, us a part, indeed, of the same picture"... | |
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