 | 1837 - 424 pages
...little carpentry and masonry between them ; — such work goes on under that smoke-counterpane! — But I, mein Werther, sit above it all ; I am alone with the stars." — pp. 20, 21. A word for the arts : " Man is a tool-using animal. Weak of himself, and of small *... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 pages
...struggling to get its head above the others ; — such work goes on under that smokecounterpane ! — But I, mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone with the stars." We looked in his face to see whether, in the utterance of such extraordinary night-thoughts, no feeling... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...struggling to get its head above the others : " such work goes on under that smoke-counterpane ! — "But I, mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone with " the Stars." We looked in his face to see whether, in the utterance of such extraordinary Night-thoughts, no feeling... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 328 pages
...struggling to get its head above the " others : such work goes on under that smoke-counter" pane ! — But I, mein Werther, sit above it all ; I am " alone with the Stars." We looked in his face to see whether, in the utterance of such extraordinary Night-thoughts, no feeling... | |
 | 1842 - 512 pages
...struggling to get its head above the others : such work goes on under that smoke-counterpane ! — But I, mein Werther, sit above it all ; I am alone with the Stars." Nor yet again, fastidious reader, think that these researches into the outward woofings and wrappings... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 654 pages
...struggling to get " its head above the other : sve/i work goes on under that smoke" counterpane!—But I, mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone « with the Stars." We looked in his face to see whether, in the utterance of such extraordinary Night-thoughts, no feeling... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 512 pages
...struggling to get its head above the others; — such work goes on under that smoke-counterpane! — But I, mein Werther, sit above it all ; I am alone with the stars.' We looked in his face to see whether in the utterance of such extraordinary night-thoughts, no feeling... | |
 | 1857 - 510 pages
...struggling to get its head above the others;—sncft work goes on under that smoke-counterpane!—But I, mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone with the stars.' We looked in his face to see whether in the utterance of such extraordinary night-thoughts, no feeling... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pages
...struggling to get its " head above the others : such work goes on under that smoke" counterpane ! — But I, mein Werther, sit above it all ; I am alone " with the Stars." We looked in his face to see whether, in the utterance of such extraordinary Night-thoughts, no feeling... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1866 - 138 pages
...each struggling to get its head above the others: suck work goes on under that smoke-counterpane!— but I, mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone with the Stars." We looked in his face to see whether, in the utterance of such extraordinary Night-thoughts, no feeling... | |
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... together, with nothing but a little carpentry and masonry between them; — crammed in, like salted fish in their barrel; — or weltering, shall I say, like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed vipers, each struggling to get its head above the others: such... 
