 | Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 288 pages
...of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to Halls roofed-in, and lighted to the due pitch for her ; and only Vice...stertorous, unquiet slumber of sick Life, is heard hi Heaven ! Oh, under that hideous coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases,... | |
 | 1837 - 1322 pages
...thinks Boo'tes of them, as he leads his hunting-dogs over the zenith in their leash of sidereal fire 1 That stifled hum of midnight, — when traffic has...life, is heard in heaven ! Oh, under that hideous coverlid" (quasi, coverlet,) ' of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a fermenting-vat... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...lighted to the due piich for her: anil only Vice and Misery, to prowl or to timvi like night birds, are abroad : that hum. I say. like the stertorous, unquiet slumber of sn-k Life, is heard in Heaven! Oh, under that hideous .Mvirlet of vapors. and putrefactions, and unimagi... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 pages
...some fathoms into the ancient reign of Night, what thinks Bootes of them, as he leads his hunting-dogs over the zenith in their leash of sidereal fire? That...life, is heard in heaven ! Oh, under that hideous coverlid of vapors, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a fermenting-vat lies simmering... | |
 | 1837 - 424 pages
...the zenith in their leash of sidereal fire? That stifled hum of midnight, — when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot-wheels of vanity, still...life, is heard in heaven ! Oh, under that hideous coverlid of vapors, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a fermenting-vat lies simmering... | |
 | 1837 - 660 pages
...over the zenith in their leash of sidereal fire 1 That stifled hum of midnight, — when traffic lias laid down to rest, and the chariotwheels of vanity,...slumber of sick life, is heard in heaven ! Oh, under tdat hideous coverlid" (quasi, coverlet,) ' of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...the Zenith in their leash " of sidereal fire ? That stifled hum of Midnight, when " Traffic has lain down to rest ; and the chariot-wheels " of Vanity,...hideous " coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimagina" ble gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and " hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 324 pages
...the Zenith in their leash " of sidereal fire ? That stifled hum of Midnight, when " Traffic has lain down to rest ; and the chariot-wheels " of Vanity,...hideous " coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimagina" ble gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and " hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 326 pages
...the Zenith in their leash "of sidereal fire? That stifled hum of Midnight, when " Traffic has lain down to rest ; and the chariot-wheels " of Vanity,...hideous " coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, arid unimagina" ble gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and " hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 328 pages
...roofed in, and lighted " to the due pitch for her ; and only Vice and Misery, to " prowl or to moan Jike nightbirds, are abroad : that " hum, I say, like the...hideous " coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimagina" ble gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and " hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful... | |
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Oh, under that hideous coverlet of vapors, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful are there ; men are dying there, men are being born ; men are praying, — on the other side... 
