 | Art - 1824 - 406 pages
...of the poet's spirit, sensible to all worth, unil exalting all. Nay, if thou wilt have it, who but the poet was it that first formed gods for us; that...exalted us to them, and brought them down to us.' " In one of his excursions from home, he meets with a little girl, Mignon. The translator in his preface,... | |
 | 1829 - 538 pages
...splendour of the poet's spirit, sensible to all worth and exalting all. Nay, if thou wilt have it, who but the poet was it that first formed gods for us ; that...exalted us to them, and brought them down to us.'" — Vol. i. pp. 91, 92. Wilhelm is no sooner recovered than he proceeds upon his travels. Returning... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1838 - 476 pages
...of the Poet's spirit, sensible to all worth, and ennobling all. Nay, if thou wilt have it, who but the Poet was it that first formed Gods for us ; that exalted us to them, and brought them down to us ? "' * For a man of Goethe's talent to write many such pieces of rhetoric, setting forth the dignity... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...of the Poet's spirit, sensible to all worth, and ennobling all. Nay, if thou wilt have it, who but the Poet was it that first formed Gods for us ; that .exalted us to them, and brought them down tous?"'» For a man of Goethe's talent to write many such pieces of rhetoric, setting forth the dignity... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...of the Poet's spirit, sensible to all worth, and ennobling all. Nay, if thou wilt have it, who but the Poet was it that first formed Gods for us ; that exalted us to them, and brought them down to us ?' "* For a man of Goethe's talent to write many such pieces of rhetoric, setting forth the dignity... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...of the Poet's spirit, sensible to all worth, and ennobling all. Nay, if thou wilt have it, who but the Poet was it that first formed Gods for us ; that exalted us to them, and brought them down to us 1' "• For a man of Goethe's talent to write many such pieces of rhetoric, setting forth the dignity... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - English essays - 1852 - 568 pages
...of the Poet's spirit, sensible to all worth, and ennobling all. Nay, if thou wilt have it, who but the Poet was it that first formed Gods for us; that exalted us to thein> and brought them down to us V "* For a man of Goethe's talent to write many such pieces of rhetoric,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 594 pages
...the poet's imagination which felt and ennobled all their worth. Who but poets, in fine, created gods, exalted us to them, and brought them down to us ?" "My friend," replied Werner, after a little reflection, "I have often lamented that you should seek to divest yourself... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...of the Poet's spirit, sensible to all worth, and ennobling all. Nay, if thou wilt have it, who but the Poet was it that first formed Gods for us ; that exalted us to them, and brought them down to us ?' "* For a man of Goethe's talent to write many such pieces of rhetoric, setting forth the dignity... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1857 - 556 pages
...of the Poet's spirit, sensible to all worth, and ennobling all. Nay, if thou wilt have it, who but the Poet was it that first formed Gods for us ; that exalted us to them, and brought them down to us?'"1 For a man of Goethe's talent to write many such pieces of rhetoric, setting forth the dignity... | |
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... Poet's inspired lips had skill to show them forth; and even the rich man could not of himself discern such costliness in his idol grandeurs, as when they were presented to him shining in the splendour of the Poet's spirit, sensible to all worth, and... 
