 Hours : it is a stern pilgrimage through burning sandy solitudes, throngh regions of thick-ribbed ice. He walks among men ; loves men, with inexpressible soft pity, — as they cannot love him : but his soul dwells in solitude, in the uttermost parts...  The Yale Literary Magazine - Page 341849Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...is already as earnest and awful, and beautiful and terrible, as death. Not a May-game is this man's life ; but a battle and a march, a warfare with principalities and powers. No idle promenade through fragrant orange - groves and green flowery spaces, waited on by the choral Muses and the rosy Hours : it is... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1843 - 198 pages
...is already as earnest and awful, and beautiful and terrihle as death. Not a may-game is this man's life ; but a battle and a march, a warfare with principalities...through burning sandy solitudes, through regions of thickjibbed ice. He walks among men ; loves men, with inexpressible soft pity — as they cannot love... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1843 - 404 pages
...is already as earnest and awful, and beautiful and terrible, as death. Not a May-game is this man's life ; but a battle and a march, a warfare with principalities...stern pilgrimage through burning sandy solitudes, throngh regions of thick-ribbed ice. He walks among men ; loves men, with inexpressible soft pity,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1843 - 280 pages
...is already as earnest and awful, and beautiful and terrible, as death. Not a May-game is this man's life ; but a battle and a march, a warfare with principalities and powers. No idle promenade through fragrant orange - groves and green flowery spaces, waited on by the choral Muses and the rosy Hours : it is... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...is already as earnest and awful, and beautiful and terrible, as death. Not a May-game is this man's life ; but a battle and a march, a warfare with principalities and powers. No idle promenade through fragrant-orange-groves and green flowery spaces, waited on by the choral Muses and the rosy Hours ;... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - Biography - 1853 - 360 pages
...off victorious in the contest. An eminent living writer has finely said, " Not a May-game is man's life ; but a battle and a march, a warfare with principalities and powers ; " and moral heroism may be, with all reverence, considered tinder the similitude of the ladder the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1862 - 656 pages
...march,' a warfare with principalities and powers. No idle promenade through fragrant-orange-groves and green flowery spaces, waited on by the choral Muses and the rosy Hours ; it is a stern pil- >. grimage through burning sandy solitudes, through regions of vT*^ thicTfribbed ice. He walks... | |
 | Members of the Evangelical Alliance - 1864 - 1272 pages
...conflict. " Not a May game," we may well exclaim in the words of an eloquent writer, " was this man's life ; but a battle and a march, a warfare with principalities...spaces, waited on by the choral Muses and the rosy Hours ; ' but a " stern pilgrimage through burning sandy solitudes, through regions of thick-ribbed ice.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1870 - 412 pages
...is already as earnest and awful, and beautiful and terrible, as death. Not a May-game is this man's life ; but a battle and a march, a warfare with principalities...on by the choral Muses and the rosy Hours : it is a stem pilgrimage through burning sandy solitudes, through regions of thick-ribbed ice. He walks among... | |
 | Alfred Leigh - 1879 - 532 pages
...COURT, PATERNOSTER Row. ALL RiGHTS RESERVED. MAUD ATHERTON. CHAPTER I. " Not a May-game is this man's life ; but a battle and a march — a warfare with...principalities and powers. No idle promenade through fragrant orange groves and green flowery spaces, waited on by the choral Muses and the rosy Hours : it is a... | |
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