 To us, my friend, the times that are gone by Are a mysterious book, sealed with seven seals: That which you call the spirit of ages past Is but, in truth, the spirit of some few authors In which those ages are beheld reflected, "With what distortion strange...  The Irish Nation: Its History and Its Biography - Page 675by James Wills - 1876Full view - About this book
 | England - 1820 - 876 pages
...us, my friend, the times that arc gone by Are a mysterious book, sealed with seven seals: That which you call the spirit of ages past Is but in truth the spirit of some few men, In which those ages are beheld reflected. Oh ! often, what a toilsome thing it is This study of... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 568 pages
...my friend, the times that are gone by Are a mysterious book, sealed with seven seals : , That which you call the spirit of ages past Is but, in truth,...reflected, With what distortion strange heaven only knows. Oh ! often, what a toilsome thing it is This study of thine, at the first glance we fly it. A mass... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 610 pages
...us, my friend, the times that are gone by Are a mysterious book, sealed with seven seals : That which you call the spirit of ages past Is but, in truth,...reflected, With what distortion strange heaven only knows. Oh ! often, what a toilsome thing it is This study of thine, at the first glance we fly it. A mass... | |
 | Irishman - 1840 - 238 pages
...gone by Are a mysterious book, sealed with seven seals: That which you call the spirit of ages past It but in truth the spirit of some few authors, In which...lucubrations of the academy or the cloister, in which littlo of external life can be felt (the only knowledge of life,) or from history which is but an abstract... | |
 | 1846 - 578 pages
...us, my friend, the times that are gone by Are a mysterious book, sealed with seven seals. That which you call the spirit of ages past Is but, in truth,...those ages are beheld reflected, With what distortion heaven only knows. History! Facts dramatized, say rather. Action, plot, Sentiment, every thing the... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1849 - 260 pages
...us, my friend, the times that are gone by Are a mysterious book, sealed with seven seals : That which you call the spirit of ages past Is but, in truth,...reflected, With what distortion strange heaven only knows. Oh ! often, what a toilsome thing it is This study of thine, at the first glance we fly it. A mass... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1849 - 254 pages
...by Are a mysterious book, sealed with seven seals : That which you call the spirit of ages past la but, in truth, the spirit of some few authors In which...reflected, With what distortion strange heaven only knows. Oh ! often, what a toilsome thing it is This study of thine, at the first glance we fly it. A mass... | |
 | William Knighton - Sri Lanka - 1854 - 442 pages
...— " To us, my friend, the times that are gone by Are as a book, sealed with seven seals. That which you call the spirit of ages past Is but, in truth,...With what distortion strange, Heaven only knows." It was not without a melancholy feeling that we gazed upon " the tombs of the kings " in Kandy, when... | |
 | William Knighton - Sri Lanka - 1854 - 450 pages
...us, my friend, the times that are gone by Are as a book, scaled with seven scale. That which you rail the spirit of ages past Is but, in truth, the spirit...With what distortion strange, Heaven only knows." It was not without a melancholy feeling that we gazed upon " the tombs of the kings " in Kandy, when... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Conduct of life - 1857 - 376 pages
...us, my friend, the times that are gone by Are a mysterious book, sealed with seven seals : That which you call the spirit of ages past Is but, in truth,...reflected, With what distortion strange heaven only knows. Oh ! often, w hat a toilsome thing it is This study of thine, at the first glance we fly it. A mass... | |
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