10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNRESTINGNESS»
Discover the use of
unrestingness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unrestingness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The collected writings of Thomas De Quincey
The German imagination has been most struck by the duration of the man's life,
and his unhappy sanctity from death : the English, by the unrestingness of the
man's life, his incapacity of repose. was a vox castrensis, a word and an idea
purely ...
Thomas De Quincey, David Masson,
1897
2
Dion, a tragedy; and poems
Must we defy fatigue — and set our feet, That ardour wings as Hermes' feet
against Time's own unrestingness. Full fifteen leagues Must be devoured of our
undulled shields Ere they can flout the flaming savageness In yonder foes' base
faces.
3
Sonnets and minor poems
12. hast: In the sense of unrestingness, continual hast'ning onward. 124 1. childe
of State: To figure forth this independence of influence from any change of ever
on-hasting Time, the mutations of royal succession or favor as subject to Time ...
William Shakespeare, Charlotte Endymion Porter,
1912
most struck with the duration of the man's life, and his unhappy sanctity from
death ; the English by tha«unrestingness of the man's life, his incapacity of
repose. Note 9. Page 231. " Immeasurable toga." — It is very true that in the time
of ...
Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields,
1851
The German imagination has been most struck by the duration of the man's life,
and his unhappy sanctity from death: the English, by the unrestingness of the
man's life, his incapacity of repose. cept as an alien. It had no original domicile in
266 ...
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey: Historical ...
... Jew ” :—The German name for what we English call the Wandering Jew. The
German imagination has been most struck by the duration of the man's life, and
his unhappy sanctity from death: the English, by the unrestingness of the man's
life, ...
Thomas De Quincey, David Masson,
1890
All this mental activity in theology, all this keenness and unrestingness of
speculative faculty, never seemed in any degree to end (as with so many men it
does end) merely in the intellect, but told with immediate and pervading effect
upon his ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell,
1870
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De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851
most struck with the duration of the man's life, and his unhappy sanctity from
death ; the English by the unrestingness of the man's life, his incapacity of repose
. Note 9. Page 231. " Immeasurable toga." — It is very true that in the time of ...
Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields,
1851
When we contrast the animate and the inanimate after this fashion, there rises in
the mind the remarkable fact that the sublimest examples of unrestingness are
afforded by the movements of the heavenly bodies, and of the earth itself. For
how ...
John Arthur Thomson,
1920
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ESSAYS IN ANCIENT HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES
The German imagination has been most struck by the duration of the man's life,
and his unhappy sanctity from death; the English, by the unrestingness of the
man's life, his incapacity of repose. Note 104. Page 509. ' Immeasurable toga : '
— It ...