 ... sobbings of a dumb creature, which in the ear of Heaven are prayers. The poor Earth, with her poor joys, was now my needy Mother, not my cruel Stepdame; Man, with his so mad Wants and so mean Endeavours, had become the dearer to me; and even for his...  Sartor Resartus - Page 171by Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - Transcendentalism in literature - 1831 - 294 pages
...mean Endeavours, had become the dearer to me ; and even for his sufferings and his sins, I now first named him Brother. Thus was I standing in the porch...that had been strangling him, and straightway could unfasten it, and was free. ' A vain interminable controversy,' writes he, ' touching what is at present... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1835 - 724 pages
...mean Endeavors, had become the dearer to me ; and even for his sufferings and his sins, I now first named him Brother. Thus was I standing in the porch of that ' Sanrtuary of Sorrow ;' by strange, steep ways, had I too been guided thither ; and ere long its sacred... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1837 - 322 pages
...mean endeavours, had become the dearer to me ; and even for his sufferings and his sins I now first named him Brother. Thus was I standing in the porch...that had been strangling him, and straightway could unfasten it, and was free. " A vain interminable controversy," writes he, " touching what is at present... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...' Endeavours, had become the dearer to me ; and even ' for his sufferings and his sins, I now first named him * Brother. Thus was I standing in the porch...that had been strangling him, and straightway could unfasten it, and was free. ' A vain interminable con' troversy,' writes he, ' touching what is at present... | |
 | 1840 - 448 pages
...mean endeavours, had become the dearer to me; and even for his sufferings and his sins, 1 now first named him, Brother. Thus was I standing in the porch...the ' divine depth of Sorrow* lie disclosed to me. Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an infmite in him,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1840 - 324 pages
...' Endeavours, had become the dearer to me; and even ' for his sufferings and his sins, I now first named him ' Brother. Thus was I standing in the porch of that i ' " Sanctuary of Sorrow; " by strange, steep ways, had 'I too been guided thither; and ere long its... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 490 pages
...mean Endeavours, had become the dearer to me ; ' and even for his sufferings and his sins, I now first named him ' brother. Thus was I standing in the porch...that had been strangling him, and straightway could unfasten it, and was free. ' A vain interminable controversy,' writes he, ' touching ' what is at present... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...mean Endeavours, had become the dearer to me; ' and even for his sufferings and his sins, I now first named him ' brother. Thus was I standing in the porch...that had been strangling him, and straightway could unfasten it, and was free. ' A vain interminable controversy,' writes he, ' touching ' what is at present... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1850 - 676 pages
...mean Endeavours, had become the dearer to me ' and even for his sufferings and his sins, I now first named him ' brother. Thus was I standing in the porch of that " Saiwt**n ' of Sorrow ;" by strange, steep ways, had I too been guided ' thither ; and ere long its... | |
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