Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books |
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Common terms and phrases
Adamite amid Andreas Apron art thou Auscultator Baphometic become Biography biped Blumine bosom called Capricornus Carlyle Carlyle's celestial CHAPTER Dandiacal dark dead Devil Diogenes discern divine doubtless dröckh Earth Editor English Entepfuhl Eternity Everlasting eyes faculty fancy feeling Fraser's Magazine Garment genius German Gneschen Gretchen Happy hast heart Heaven Herr History hitherto Hofrath Heuschrecke hope human humour infinite less LIGHT living look man's mankind Marchfeld meditation melodious Singer ment mysterious mystic Nature never Nevertheless nowise once ORNIA perhaps Philosophy of Clothes present Professor Teufelsdröckh reader round Sartor Resartus Satanic School Schreckhorn Science of Things seems silent Society Sorrow sort soul Spirit stand strange Symbols Teufels Teufelsdröckh thee thereof things Thomas Carlyle thou thought thyself tion Tophet Towgood true Universe UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA unspeakable utterances visible Vocables Volume Weissnichtwo whereby wherein whole wilt wonder words writes young
Popular passages
Page 156 - The situation that has not its duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal ; work it out therefrom ; and working, believe, live, be free.
Page 210 - Then sawest thou that this fair Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City of God ; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and most through every Living Soul, the glory of a present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.
Page 135 - Thus had the EVERLASTING No (dot ewige Ntin) pealed authoritatively through all the recesses of my Being, of my ME ; and then was it that my whole ME stood up, in native God-created majesty, and with emphasis recorded its Protest.
Page 134 - What art thou afraid of ? Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling ? Despicable biped ! what is the sumtotal of the worst that lies before thee? Death?
Page 152 - HAPPY? They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two; for the Shoeblack also has a Soul quite other than his Stomach; and would require, if you consider it, for his permanent satisfaction and saturation, simply this allotment, no more, and no less: God's infinite Universe altogether to himself, therein to enjoy infinitely, and fill every wish as fast as it rose.
Page 213 - In Being's floods, in Action's storm, I walk and work, above, beneath, Work and weave in endless motion! 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 by.
Page 153 - I see a glimpse of it!" cries he elsewhere: "there is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness: he can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness! Was it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered; bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the Godlike that is in Man, and how in the Godlike only has he Strength and Freedom?
Page 146 - Thousands of human generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up of Time, and there remains no wreck of them any more ; and Arcturus and Orion and Sirius and the Pleiades are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the Shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar.
Page 57 - Nay, if you consider it, what is Man himself, and his whole terrestrial Life, but an Emblem ; a Clothing or visible Garment for that divine ME of his, cast hither, like a light-particle, down from Heaven ? Thus is he said also to be clothed with a Body.
Page 188 - Phoenix is fanning her funeral pyre, will there not ' be sparks flying ! Alas, some millions of men, and among them ' such as a Napoleon, have already been licked into that high' eddying Flame, and like moths consumed there.