| James Baldwin Brown - 1883 - 264 pages
...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... | |
| Samuel Wainwright - 1884 - 416 pages
...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...And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by." Yet our dreamer was not thinking either of Cowper or of Goethe, but rather of the thought of both —... | |
| Charles John Ellicott - 1884 - 612 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 494 pages
...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 by.' Of... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1885 - 688 pages
...weave in endless motion ! Birth and Duath, An infinite ocean ; A seizing and giving The fire of the 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 Erdgeitst, are there yet... | |
| Augustine Birrell - 1885 - 128 pages
...life Is rounded with a sleep; " the other, the exclamation of the Earth-spirit, in Goethe's Faust: I " 'Tis thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou seest Him by." But this is but one side of Carlyle. There is another as strongly marked, which is his second note;... | |
| Augustine Birrell - 1885 - 248 pages
...life Is rounded with a sleep;' the other,, the exclamation of the Earth-spirit, in Goethe's Faust: ' Tis thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou seest Him by.' But this is but one side of Carlyle. There is another as strongly marked, which is his second note;... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1885 - 372 pages
...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. It is " the garmerit of God." Again, Carlyle says in 'Sartor Eesartus,'... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1885 - 490 pages
...Being's floods, in Action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion I 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 thon seest Him by.' Of... | |
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