| Thomas Carlyle - 1908 - 516 էջ
...Runes, of 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...every thinker, still very literally lives ; can be calledup again into life. No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought,... | |
| 1908 - 408 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...Pericleses, and their Greece; all is gone now to some ruined fragment, dumb mournful wrecks and blocks: but the Books of Greece! There Greece, to every thinker,... | |
| 1908 - 408 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...precious, great: but what do they become? Agamemnon, many Agamemnons, Pericleses, and their Greece; all is gone now to some ruined fragment, dumb mournful... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1910 - 152 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...to every thinker, still very literally lives; can sC B be called-up again into life. No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that mankind has done,... | |
| Grenville Kleiser - 1910 - 302 էջ
...them. "In books," writes Carlyle, "is 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... | |
| Frederic Rowland Marvin - 1910 - 360 էջ
...Carlyle are forever true: "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... | |
| Lawrence McTurnan - 1910 - 256 էջ
...those books in which Carlyle says "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." Harry Lyman Koopman, in "The Mastery of Books" says : "In response to the question, 'What to read?'... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 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...every thinker, still very literally lives ; can be called-up again into hie. No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought,... | |
| TEMPLE SCOTT - 1911 - 294 էջ
...Runes, of 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... | |
| Maude Morrison Frank - 1911 - 216 էջ
...thy voice is loud. 5 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. 6 The tumult and the shouting dies. 7 He sees that this great roundabout The world, with all its motley... | |
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