...Tree Igtlrasll. Carlyle alludes to a Scandinavian myth which he had explained in the first lecture: "All life is figured by them as a tree. Igdrasil,...ash-tree of existence, has its roots deep down in the kingdoms of Hela or Death; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its boughs over the whole uni"verse."...

...the compact greatness, not giantlike, but godlike and stronger than gianthood, of the Shakespeares, the Goethes ! — Spiritually as well as bodily these...Igdrasil, the Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deepdown in the kingdoms of Hela or Death ; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its boughs over...

...of this tree of existence. We cannot do better than quote in this place Carlyle's famous description of the tree Igdrasil : " All Life is figured by them...Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deep down in the kingdoms of Hela or Death ; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its boughs over the whole Universe...

...unknown depths and the branches of which spread over all lands. In On Heroes, Carlyle had written: I like, too, that representation they have of the...Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deep down in the kingdoms of Hela or Death; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its boughs over the whole Universe:...

...unknown depths and the branches of which spread over all lands. Carlyle describes it in On Heroes: I like, too, that representation they have of the...Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deep down in the kingdoms of Hela or Death; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its boughs over the whole Universe:...

...the great blue vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a HyperBrobdignagian business ! Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous;...Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deep down in the kingdoms of Hela or Death ; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its boughs over the whole Universe...

...thereof descending like donkey's ears down to his heels ! In stories like these Mr. Carlyle can see ' Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enor'mous — to...but godlike, and stronger than gianthood, of 'the Shakesperes and Goethes.' Taking the same friendly spirit of interpretation along with him everywhere,...

...Phalaris* sits miserably dying ! ^ ^^ lect V IGDRASIL I LIKE, too, that representation the Norse Poets have of the Tree Igdrasil. All Life is figured by...Igdrasil, the Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deep-down in the kingdoms of Hela or Death; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its boughs over...

...the mystical and scientific representations of the tree seem to be numberless. "All life is figured as a tree. Igdrasil, the Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deep down in the kingdoms of Hela or Death ; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its branches over the whole Universe:...