 | Thomas Carlyle - 1927 - 296 頁
...nourished, soft-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...given thee? Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.' ' Es leuchtet mir ein, I see a glimpse of it!' cries he elsewhere: 'there is in man a HIGHER than Love of... | |
 | William Clyde DeVane - 1927 - 346 頁
...happiness in doing his duty, and none at all if he did not : What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A little while ago thou hadst no...be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined to be Unhappy?7* God was an alien task-master who laid heavy duties on mankind's shoulders without... | |
 | Jerome B. Schneewind - 1977 - 490 頁
...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 of Happiness . . . Love not Pleasure,' he urges, 'Love... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 頁
...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...wert born and predestined not to be Happy but to be Unhappyl Art thou nothing other than a Vulture, then, that fliest through the Universe seeking after... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1984 - 548 頁
...nourished, soft-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 he at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to be Happy, but to be Unhappy! Art thou nothing... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 頁
...nourished, soft-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 were born and predestined not to be Happy, but to be Unhappy ! Art thou nothing other than a Vulture,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 頁
...requires neither thanks nor complaint. . . . Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou London, 7 Oct. 1951). 19 Since every effort in THOMAS CARLYLE (1 795-1 881 ), Scollish essayist, historian. Teufelsdrockh, in Sartor Resartui, bk.... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 頁
...nourished, softbedded, and lovingly cared-for? Foolish soul! What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A little while ago thou hadst no...not given thee? Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe." , (h) Extract from Past and Present (1843). Quoted here from Works, ed. Traill, X, 196: 'The latest... | |
 | Andrew Elfenbein - 1995 - 310 頁
...(sweet gentleman) is not sufficiently honoured, nourished, soft-bedded, and lovingly cared-for? . . . Art thou nothing other than a Vulture, then, that...not given thee? Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe. (SR, pp. 191-92) The final statement suddenly translates moral problems into a choice between authors.... | |
 | Bertrand Russell, Peter Köllner - 1997 - 944 頁
...nourished, soft-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...fliest through the Universe seeking after somewhat to ear, and shrieking dolefully because carrion enough is not given thee? Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe"... | |
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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! 
