 ... on you, from the great inner Sea of Beauty! How could the rude Earth make these, if her Essence, rugged as she looks and is, were not inwardly Beauty ? In this point of view, too, a saying of Goethe's, which has staggered several, may have meaning:...  The North British Review - Page 4521851Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...inwardly Beauty? In this point of view, too, a saying of Goethe's, which has staggered several, may have meaning: 'The Beautiful,' he intimates, ' is higher...the distinction and identity of Poet and Prophet. — In ancient and also in modern periods we find a few Poets who are accounted perfect ; whom it were... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 620 pages
...Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin : yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.' A glance, that,...which, however, I have said somewhere, ' differs from the/o/se, as Heaven does from Vauxhall ! ' So much for the distinction and identity of poet and prophet."... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1849 - 260 pages
...inwardly Beauty?—In this point-of view, too, a saying of Goethe's, which has staggered several, may have meaning: ' The Beautiful,' he intimates, ' is higher...Good ; the Beautiful includes in it the Good.' The trw> Beautiful ; which however, I have said somewhere, ' differs from the false, as Heaven does from... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...inwardly Beauty ? In this point of view,, too, a saying of Goethe's, which has staggered several, may have meaning : ' The Beautiful,' he intimates, ' is higher...the distinction and identity of Poet and Prophet. — In ancient and also in modern periods, we find a few Poets who are accounted perfect ; whom it... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1859 - 222 pages
...saying of Goethe's, which has staggered several, may have meaning : c The Beautiful,' he intimates, i is higher than the Good ; the Beautiful includes in...Beautiful ; which however, I have said somewhere, * diifers from the false, as Heaven does from Yauxhall!' So much for the distinction and identity of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1869 - 328 pages
...inwardly Beauty ? In this point of view, too, a saying of Goethe's, which has staggered several, may have meaning : ' The ' Beautiful,' he intimates, ' is higher...the distinction and identity of Poet and Prophet. — In ancient and also in modern periods we find a few Poets who are accounted perfect ; whom it were... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1871 - 408 pages
...inwardly Beauty? In this point of view, too, a saying of Goethe's, which has staggered several, may have meaning : ' The Beautiful,' he intimates, ' is higher...the distinction and identity of Poet and Prophet. — In ancient and also in modern periods, we find a few Poets who are accounted perfect ; whom it... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1876 - 412 pages
...Beauty ? — In this point of view, too, a saying of Goethe's, which has staggered several, may have meaning; 'The Beautiful,' he intimates, 'is higher...differs from the false, as Heaven does from Vauxhall ! ' — a. n 7. DEFINITION OF POETRY, MUSIC. FOR my own part I find considerable meaning in the old... | |
 | Edward Barrett - 1881 - 412 pages
...Beauty ? — In this point of view, too, a saying of Goethe's, which has staggered several, may have meaning; 'The Beautiful,' he intimates, 'is higher...differs from the false, as Heaven does from Vauxhall ! ' — H. III. DEFINITION OF POETRY, MUSIC. FOR my own part I find considerable meaning in the old... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1884 - 494 pages
...inwardly Beauty ? In this point of view, too, a saying of Goethe's, which has staggered several, may have meaning : " The Beautiful," he intimates, " is higher...the distinction and identity of Poet and Prophet. — In ancient and also in modern periods we find a few Poets who are accounted perfect ; whom it were... | |
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