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" Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them ; they cannot stop themselves ; sleep cannot still them ; madness only makes them go faster ; death alone can break into the case, and, seiz> ing the ever-swinging pendulum, which... "
The Arena - Seite 136
1891
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Littell's Living Age, Band 60

1859 - 868 Seiten
...relief. It is like taking the cat in your lap after holding a squirrel." " Our brains are seventy year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection." If the following is a true description of the matter, we are disposed to be thankful that the gods...
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The Autocrat of the breakfast table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 Seiten
...thinner, until at last the veil of flesh is threadbare, and. still singing, they drop it and pass onward. Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...Resurrection. Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; oui will cannot stop them ; they cannot stop themselves , sleep cannot still them ; madness only makes...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Band 52

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 732 Seiten
...the reader's especial attention to the sententious force and exquisite beauty of the extract : ' От brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. 'Tic-tac! tic- tac! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them; they cannot stop themselves ; sleep...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Band 52

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 730 Seiten
...attention to the sententious force and exquisite beauty of the extract : ' OCR brains are seventy -year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Rosurrection. 'Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them ; they cannot...
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A Compendium of American Literature: Chronologically Arranged, with ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 Seiten
...caught a cold, was laid up with a lumbago, and had time to think over this whole matter. THE BRAIN. Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot...
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Arthur's Home Magazine, Band 15

1860 - 908 Seiten
...upon those whose icy natures are doomed to eternal congealment, — Cragon. SEVENTY- YEAR CLOCKS. OUB brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurreetion. Tic-tac ! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them ; they cannot...
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A compendium of American literature, arranged by C.D. Cleveland. Stereotyped ed

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 Seiten
...caught a cold, was laid up with a lumbago, and had time to think over this whole matter. THE BRAIN. Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 Seiten
...The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then eloses the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac...wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them ; they caunot stop themselves ; sleep cannot still them ; madness only makes them go faster ; death alone...
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A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 Seiten
...caught a cold, was laid up with a lumbago, and had time to think over this whole matter. THE BRAIN. Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot...
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The Galaxy: A Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Band 1

Mark Twain - 1866 - 852 Seiten
...picturesque pas>ag'ï in the "Autocrat of the Breakfast-table " illustrates this : " Our brains aro seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them...of thought; our will cannot stop them; they cannot «top themselves; sleep cannot still them; madness only makes them go faster; death alono can break...
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