 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1880 - 422 sider
...recognise in this the majestic motion of the grave Shaksperian iambics — And, like the baseless fabriek of this vision, The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all that it inherit shall dissolve. The essential difference between prose... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1881 - 348 sider
...three examples) as Goethe, Carlyle, and Tennyson. You may remember the Earth-spirit in Faust says — " Thus at the roaring loom of time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou seest Him by." That is Goethe's idea of nature. She is "the garment of God." Again, Carlyle says in... | |
 | William John Townsend - 1881 - 390 sider
...Birth and death an infinite ocean, A seizing and giving the fire of the living, 'Tis thus at the war my loom of time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou seest Him by." GOETHE (translated by Carlyle). t III. JOHN SCOTUS—ERIGENA. CHARLES THE BALD, youngest... | |
 | Richard St. John Tyrwhitt - 1882 - 250 sider
...Resartus, and indeed Goethe's ; which he quotes, from Faust's ' Spirit of the Earth : * ''Tis thus the roaring loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Vesture thou seest Him by' "green and great tree, the haunting hush of limestone defiles, or of some... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1883 - 264 sider
...Goethe struck the right keynote when he put these words into the mouth of the Spirit of Nature : — So at the roaring loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the garment that them seest Him by. Those elaborate demonstrations of the Divine power and wisdom as displayed... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott - 1884 - 612 sider
...by the Jews. The imagery of the text no doubt supplied Goethe with the thought in his fine lines " Tis thus at the roaring loom of time I ply. And weave for God the garment thou seest Him by ! " which in turn suggested to Carlyle the "Philosophy of Clothes." " Why multiply instances... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 sider
...transition of feeling with which he reminds his audience of the end of all mortal things : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-cap't...towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all -which it inhabit, shall dissolve ; And, like this insubstantial pageant... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1984 - 548 sider
...what is changeable divided from what is unchangeable? Does that Earth-Spirit's speech in Faust, — Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply. And weave for God the Garment thou see'st Him by'; or that other thousand-times repeated speech of the Magician, Shakspeare, — 'And... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman - 1987 - 281 sider
...rural masque. He foretells a similar vanishing to the more substantial "pageant" of earth: "And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, / The cloud-capt...towers, the gorgeous palaces, / The solemn temples, the great globe itself, / Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve." It would be too tenuous an exercise... | |
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Being's floods, in Action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and 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... 
