 Foolish soul ! What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to be Happy, but to be Unhappy ! Art thou nothing other than a Vulture, then,...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 281882Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Claggett Chew - 1924 - 442 páginas
...of forsaken infants. This passage leads immediately on to the famous imperious command in Sartor : * Foolish soul ! What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy ? A little while ago thou hadst no right 1 Froude, ii, 76. 1 Quoted by FW Roe, Carlyle, as a Critic... | |
 | Knut Hagberg - 1925 - 372 páginas
...har rört sig om att den klagande icke haft det tillräckligt bekvämt och bra förspänt för sig. »Foolish soul! What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy ? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 páginas
...(sweet 'gentleman) is not sufficiently honoured, nourished, soft5 'bedded, and lovingly cared-for? Foolish soul! What Act 'of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A 'little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if ' thou wert born and predestined not... | |
 | Mary Agnes Hamilton - 1926 - 232 páginas
...lamenting and self-tormenting, on account of? Say it in a word : is it because thou art not HAPPY ? Because the THOU (sweet gentleman) is not sufficiently...Legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy ? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if 117 thou wert born and predestined not... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 páginas
...'(sweet gentleman) is not sufficient ly honourcd, nourished, soft-bedded, and lovingly cared-f or ? loves, To faint in his light, and to die. 12 A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert bom and predestined not to be... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1927 - 296 páginas
...lamenting and self-tormenting, on account of? Say it in a word: is it not because thou art not HAPPY? Because the THOU (sweet gentleman) is not sufficiently...Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to... | |
 | 1882 - 788 páginas
...yet carries the matter farther in his splendid protest against valuing one's own happiness at all. "Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to... | |
 | Jerome B. Schneewind - 1977 - 490 páginas
...he turns angrily away from the quest for happiness, and in a famous apostrophe to himself, exclaims, 'Foolish soul! What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.' There is, he sees, in man, 'a HIGHER than Love... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 páginas
...on work and duty shows both his distance from and his kinship to the Victorian middle-class ideal. "Foolish soul! What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1984 - 548 páginas
...lamenting and self-tormenting, on account of? Say it in a word: is it not because thou art not HAPPY? Because the THOU (sweet gentleman) is not sufficiently honoured, nourished, soft-bedded, and lovingly cared-for? Foolish soul! What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A little while... | |
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