 Undoubtedly we have,' replied the Eldest. ' Of this we make no secret ; but we draw a veil over those sufferings, even because we reverence them so highly. We hold it a damnable audacity to bring forth that torturing Cross, and the Holy One who suffers...  Essays on German Literature - Page 78by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - 1892 - 359 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1824 - 374 pages
...Sanctuary of Sorrow." " Permit me one question," said Wilhelm : " as you have set up the life of this divine Man for a pattern and example, have you likewise...reverend of all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry. Let so much, for the present, suffice to put your mind at peace respecting your son ; and to convince... | |
 | English fiction - 1827 - 372 pages
...have," replied the Eldest. " Of this we make no secret : but we draw a veil over those Bufferings, even because we reverence them so highly. We hold...reverend of all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry. Let so much, for the present, suffice to put your mind at peace respecting your son; and to convince... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1838 - 476 pages
...Sanctuary of Sorrow." '" Permit me one question," said Wilhelm : " as you have set up the life of this divine Man for a pattern and example, have you likewise...reverend of all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry. Let so much for the present suffice— * * * The rest we must "1 still owe you for a twelvemonth. The... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...because we reverence them so highly. We hold it a damnable aurlacity to bring forth that torturing Gross, and the Holy One who suffers on it, or to expose them...reverend of all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry. Let so much for the present suffice — * * * The rest we must still owe you for a twelvemonth. The... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1842 - 304 pages
...the life of this divine Man for a pattern and example, have you likewise selected his sufferings, bis death, as a model of exalted patience ?" " Undoubtedly...reverend of all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry. Let so much, for the present, suffice to put your mind at peace respecting your son ; and to convince... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...Undoubtedly we have,' replied the Eldest. •Of this we make no secret; but we draw a veil over these sufferings, even because we reverence them so highly....reverend of all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry. Let so much for the present suffice — * * * The rest we must still owe you for a twelvemonth. The... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - English prose literature - 1848 - 672 pages
...that tormring Cross, and the Holy One who suffers on it, or to expose them to the light of the aun, which hid its face when a reckless world forced such...reverend of all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry. Let so much, for the present, suffice to put your mind at peace respecting your son ; and to convince... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - English prose literature - 1848 - 618 pages
...to expose them to the light of the sun, which hid its face when a reckless world forced such a eight on it; to take these mysterious secrets, in which...reverend of all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry. Let so much, for the present, suffice to put your mind at peace respecting your son ; and to convince... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...Undoubtedly we have,' replied the Eldest 'Of this we make no secret; but we draw a veil over these sufferings, even because we reverence them so highly....reverend of all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry. Let so much for the present suffice — • • • The rest we must still owe you for a twelvemonth.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - English essays - 1852 - 568 pages
...draw a veil over these sufferings, even because we reverence them so highly. We hold it a damna-. ble audacity to bring, forth that torturing Cross, and...reverend of all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry. Let so much for the present suffice — * * * The rest we must still owe you for a twelvemonth. The... | |
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