I asked myself: What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou hast been fretting and fuming, and lamenting and self-tormenting, on account of? Say it in a word: is it not because thou art not HAPPY? Because the THOU (sweet gentleman) is not sufficiently... The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson - Page 242by John Kelman - 1903 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
| English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...with Renunciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.' "I asked myself: and the backwardcst scholars, of whom God offered...teachers. Now once again by all concurrence of signs cared-f or ? Foolish soul ! What Act of Legislature was there that tlwu shouldst be Happy? A little... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English Prose Literature - 1917 - 716 pages
...with Renunciation (Entsageri) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.' " I asked myself : What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou...Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1917 - 716 pages
...with Renunciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.' "I asked myself: What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou...art not HAPPY? Because the THOU (sweet gentleman) is 1 Goethe. not sufficiently honoured, nourished, soft-bedded, and lovingly cared for? Foolish soull... | |
| Albert Mordell - Erotic literature - 1919 - 268 pages
...one of the most famous chapters of Sartor Resartus, entitled "The Everlasting Yea." "I asked myself: What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou hast been fretting and fuming, and lamenting and self- torturing, on account of? Say it in * a word; is it not because thou art not happy? .... 1 Foolish... | |
| Albert Mordell - Erotic literature - 1919 - 268 pages
...one of the most famous chapters of Sartor Resartus, entitled "The Everlasting Yea," "I asked myself: What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou hast been fretting and fuming, and lamenting and self- torturing, on account of? Say it in a word; is it not because thou art not happy? .... Foolish... | |
| Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 404 pages
...trenches, and contentious centuries, may still divide us ! A H1gher 1n man than love of happiness (0). What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou...legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy ? A little while ago thou hadst no right (I) Qnesti nomini avevano forse qualche ragion di lite fra... | |
| William George Hoffman - Oratory - 1923 - 316 pages
...write: "It is only with Renunciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin." soft-bedded, and lovingly cared for? Foolish soul!...Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to... | |
| Friedrich W. D. Brie - English literature - 1923 - 328 pages
...only with Renunciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin." I asked myself: What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou hast been fretting and fuming, and 66 lamenting and self-tormenting, on account of ? Say it in a word : is it not because thou art not... | |
| Samuel Claggett Chew - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 442 pages
...of forsaken infants. This passage leads immediately on to the famous imperious command in Sartor : * Foolish soul ! What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy ? A little while ago thou hadst no right 1 Froude, ii, 76. 1 Quoted by FW Roe, Carlyle, as a Critic... | |
| William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 pages
...with Renunciation (Entsagen) that 'iife, properly speaking, can be said to begin." 35 'I asked myself: What is this that, ever since earliest 'years, thou...'gentleman) is not sufficiently honoured, nourished, soft5 'bedded, and lovingly cared-for? Foolish soul! What Act 'of Legislature was there that thou shouldst... | |
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