 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, seiz> ing the ever-swinging pendulum, which...  Pennsylvania School Journal - Page 2971869Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 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,...key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection." If the following is a true description of the matter, we are disposed to be thankful that the gods... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...flesh is threadbare, and. still singing, they drop it and pass onward. Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...with a lumbago, and had time to think over this whole matter. THE BRAIN. 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 hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot... | |
 | 1860 - 908 pages
...natures are doomed to eternal congealment, — Cragon. SEVENTY- YEAR CLOCKS. OUB brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...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 stop them ; they cannot... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...with a lumbago, and had time to think over this whole matter. THE BRAIN. 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 hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then eloses the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac...wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them ; they caunot stop themselves ; sleep cannot still them ; madness only makes them go faster ; death alone... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...with a lumbago, and had time to think over this whole matter. THE BRAIN. 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 hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1866 - 852 pages
...pas>ag'ï in the "Autocrat of the Breakfast-table " illustrates this : " Our brains aro seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...of thought; our will cannot stop them; they cannot «top themselves; sleep cannot still them; madness only makes them go faster; death alono can break... | |
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