 | United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business ! Untrained Thought, great, giant-like, enormous, to be tamed...as well as bodily, these men are our progenitors." Most true ; but the " light, graceful Greek Pagans," are also our spiritual progenitors — and the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...the great blue vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business ! Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous...Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deep -down in the kingdoms of Hela or Death ; its trunk reaches up heaven-high. spreads its boughs over the whole Universe... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1841 - 408 pages
...the great blue vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business ! Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous;...Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deep down in the kingdoms of Hela or Death; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its boughs over the whole Universe... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...thereof descending like donkey's ears down to his heels ! In stories like these Mr. Carlyle can see " Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous — to...godlike, and stronger than gianthood, of the Shakspeares and Goethes." Taking the same friendly spirit of interpretation along with him everywhere, it of course... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 606 pages
...Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business ! Untrained Thought, great, giant-like, enormous, to be tamed...as well as bodily, these men are our progenitors." Most true ; but the " light, graceful Greek Pagans," are also our spiritual progenitors — and the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1849 - 260 pages
...the great blua vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business! Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous...and stronger than gianthood, of the Shakspeares, the Goethes!—Spiritually as well as bodily these men are our progenitors. I like, too, that representation... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...thereof descending like donkey's ears down to his heels ! In stories like these Mr. Carlyle can see " lest the genius of the place ! If through the air a zephyr more serene Win to the brow, 'tis and Goethes." Taking the same friendly spirit of interpretation along with him everywhere, it of course... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 238 pages
...the great blue vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business! Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous...and stronger than gianthood, of the Shakspeares, the Goethes!—Spiritually as well as bodily these men are our progenitors. I like, too, that representation... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...the great blue vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business ! Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous;...Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deep -down in the kingdoms ofHela or Death ; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its boughs over the whole Universe... | |
 | James Challen - American poetry - 1859 - 184 pages
...District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON & CO. PHILADELPHIA, C. SHEUMAN I SON, PHISTEKS. I LIKE, too, that representation they have of the...life is figured by them as a tree. Igdrasil— the Ash Tree of Existence — has its roots down in the kingdoms of Hela, or death : its trunk reaches... | |
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I like, too, that representation they have of the Tree Igdrasil. All Life is figured by them as a Tree. Igdrasil, the Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots... 
