 boughs," with their buddings and disleafings, — events, things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word ? Its boughs are histories of nations....  On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history, 6 lectures - Pagina 16di Thomas Carlyle - 1888Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1882 - 856 pagine
...things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word...howling through it like the voice of all the gods. It is Yggdrasil, the tree of existence."16 As it is said in the Voluspa. An ash know I standing A high tree... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 pagine
...things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word...Human Passion rustling through it; — or stormtost, thestormwind howling through it like the voice of all the gods. It is Igdrasil, the Tree of Existence.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1842 - 414 pagine
...things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word...breath of Human Passion rustling through it ; — or storm tost, the stormwind howling through it like the voice of all the gods. It is Igdrasil, the Tree... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pagine
...things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word?...Existence, onwards from of old. It grows there, the 1 breath of Human Passion rustling through it ; — or stormtost, the stormwind howling through it... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 222 pagine
...things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word...rustling through it ; — or stormtost,. the stormwind hpwling through it like the voice of all the gods. It is Igdrasil. the Tree of Existence. It is the... | |
 | 1859 - 694 pagine
...stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fiber there an act, a word ? Its boughs are histories of nations. The rustle of it is the noise of human existence — onward from of old. It grows there, the breath of human passion rustling through it, or storm-tost,... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson - 1860 - 656 pagine
...things suffered, things done, catastrophes — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word...The rustle of it is the noise of Human Existence, onward as from of old. It grows there, the breath of human passion rustling through it; or storm- tossed,... | |
 | 1860 - 664 pagine
...it is the tree of Existence. * * * Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act, a word ? Its boughs are histories of nations. The rustle of it is the noise of human existence, — onward from of old." This extract from Carlyle suggests the general subject of the Poem. The author... | |
 | 1870 - 972 pagine
...events, things suffered, things done, catasit a biography, every fibre there an act or word ? Its houghs are histories of nations ; the rustle of it is the noise of human e* 1st ' ence ; onwards from of old it grows there, the breath of human passion rustling through it,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 954 pagine
...things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word?...howling through it like the voice of all the Gods. It is Igilrnsil, the Tree of Existence. It is the past, the present, and the future ; what was done, what... | |
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