 | Thomas Wright ("the journeyman engineer.") - 1873 - 424 էջ
...power. "In Books," says Carlyle, "lie the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past when the body and material substance of...fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high- domed, many-engined — they are precious, great : but what do they become ? Agamemnon, the many... | |
 | 1873 - 354 էջ
...Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbors and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many-engined, — they are precious, great ; but what... | |
 | Julia Duhring - 1874 - 376 էջ
...aims. "In Books," says Carlyle, "lies the Soul of the whole Past Time : the articulate, audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained, or been : it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1876 - 412 էջ
...Runes, the latest form! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...they are precious, great: but what do they become? t Agamemnon, the many Agamemnons, Pericleses, and their Greece ; all is gone now to some ruined fragments,... | |
 | English authors - 1880 - 178 էջ
...Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate, audible voice of the Past, when the tody and material substance of it has altogether vanished...mournful wrecks and blocks : but the Books of Greece I There Greece, to every thinker, still very literally lives ; can be called up again into life. No... | |
 | rev. William Jones - 1881 - 210 էջ
...W. Л. CKanning, DD (i) In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high domed, many engined, — they are precious, great : but what do they become ? Agamemnon, the many... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 592 էջ
...wearily that he can do so little, that time is so short. This weary feeling often crosses his page. "Agamemnon, the many Agamemnons, Pericleses, and their...ruined fragments — dumb, mournful wrecks and blocks." Jocelin of Brakelond is "one other of those vanished existences whose work is not yet vanished ; almost... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 108 էջ
...runes, the latest form! In books lies the soul of the whole past time; the articulate, audible voice of the . past, when the body and material substance...altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbors and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many-engined — they are precious, great: but what... | |
 | 1881 - 408 էջ
...fitarg MARCH, 1881. 1 ' IN Books lie the Saul of the whole past time ; the articulate, audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbors and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many-engined — they are precious, great ; but what... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 էջ
...wearily that he can do so little, that time is so short. This weary feeling often crosses his page. "Agamemnon, the many Agamemnons, Pericleses, and their...ruined fragments — dumb, mournful wrecks and blocks." Jocelin of Brakelond is " one other of those vanished existences whose work is not yet vanished ; almost... | |
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In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. 
