| Thomas Carlyle - 1927 - 296 sider
...weave in endless motion! Birth and Death, An infinite ocean; A seizing and giving The fire of Living: 'Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by." Of twenty millions that have read and spouted this thunder-speech of the Erdgeist, are there yet twenty... | |
| William Wilson Cook - 1927 - 424 sider
...divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will." 1 Man sees only nature and nature speaks, " 'Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou see'st Him by." 2 It is an astonishing spectacle; an intelligent, progressive, forceful people; a country of vast natural... | |
| William Wilson Cook - 1927 - 424 sider
...that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will." 1 Man sees only nature and nature speaks, " "Pis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou see'st Him by." * It is an astonishing spectacle; an intelligent, progressive, forceful people; a country of vast natural... | |
| Benjamin Harrison Lehman - 1928 - 226 sider
...GOETHE: So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit, Und wirke der Gottheit lebendiges Kleid. CARLYLE: 'Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou seest him by. Prose gloss: . . . the Earth-Spirit in Faust names it 'the living visible garment of God.' The thought... | |
| 1924 - 324 sider
...revelatory nature Goethe has so vividly expressed in the words he puts into the mouth of the earth spirit: At the roaring loom of time I ply, And weave for God the garment that thou seest Him by. If ever the loom of time wove a lesson of instruction to all nations, surely... | |
| Susan R. Schrepfer - 2003 - 363 sider
...woodland, a living redwood, or the Grand Canyon — as more than a series of scientific technicalities. Tis thus at the roaring loom of time I ply and weave for God the garment thou see'st Him by.so How glorious art thou earth, And if thou be the shadow of some spirit lovelier still. M Borrowing... | |
| Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Katharine Hillard - 1996 - 596 sider
...woven out of his own substance. The same idea has been beautifully expressed by Goethe, who says: " Thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply and weave for God the garment thou seest Him by." STANZA III.— Continued 11. It (the Web) expands when the breath of Fire (the Father) is upon it;... | |
| G. R. Mead - 1996 - 218 sider
...necessary to remind the reader of the words j/jt into the mouth of the Erdgeist by the genius of Goethe : Thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou see'st Him by. This Garment of God is the Universe. The Loom of the Erdgeist roars as the shuttles fly on their cyclic... | |
| Archibald Edward Gough - 2000 - 298 sider
...motion, Birth and death, An infinite ocean ; A seizing and a giving The fire of living : 'Tis thus that at the roaring loom of time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou seest him by." — CABLTLE. MANY of the most impressive utterances of the primi- CHAP tive Indian philosophy are to... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 2002 - 1258 sider
...89.4-5. 'wild-roaring Loom of Time': Carlyle's translation of lines from Goethe's Faust (1.508-9): "'Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, / And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by" (Sartor 1.8.55; see 2.10.205, 3.9.268). 89.19-21. 'I have painted so much,' said the good Jean Paul,... | |
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