| Frances Power Cobbe - 1880 - 236 sider
...the marks of the handiwork of any second or opposing Intelligence. If Nature explains herself to us, '"Tis thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the garb thou seest Him by," that "garb" we behold is neither unfinished in the minutest hem, nor yet torn... | |
| John Morrison Davidson - 1880 - 274 sider
...sudden appearance in the universe of a dead, inane substance foreign to God and spiritual being." " Thus at the roaring loom of time I ply, And weave for God the mantle thou seest him by." All religions properly so-called conceive of phenomena as the outcome of... | |
| William John Townsend - 1881 - 390 sider
...completed, not undone. " AH CLOUGH. " In being's flood, and action's storm, I walk and work above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion, Birth and death...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... | |
| 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 ' Sartor Eesartus,'... | |
| 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 ? It is... | |
| Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1884 - 604 sider
...Jews. The imagery of the text no doubt supplied Goethe with the thought in his fine lines " Tis thns unto thee, and will look up. (*) For thou art eeeet Him by 1 " which in turn suggested to Carlyle the "Philosophy of Clothes." " Why multiply instances... | |
| Samuel Wainwright - 1884 - 416 sider
...soul in all things, and that soul is God." Another was from the speech of the Erdgeist in Faust, — " 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... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 494 sider
...Being's floods, in Action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion 1 Birth and Death, An infinite ocean ; A seizing and giving The fire of Living : 'T is thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him... | |
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