The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essaysChapman and Hall, 1899 |
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Pagina 6
... English histories do likewise abound : copious if not in facts , yet in reflections on facts . They will prove to the most incredulous that this French Revolution was , as Chamfort said , no rose - water Revolution ' ; that the ...
... English histories do likewise abound : copious if not in facts , yet in reflections on facts . They will prove to the most incredulous that this French Revolution was , as Chamfort said , no rose - water Revolution ' ; that the ...
Pagina 8
... English biographies we have is that long thin Folio on Oliver Cromwell , published some five - and - twenty years ago , where the editor has merely clipt - out from the contemporary news- papers whatsoever article , paragraph , or ...
... English biographies we have is that long thin Folio on Oliver Cromwell , published some five - and - twenty years ago , where the editor has merely clipt - out from the contemporary news- papers whatsoever article , paragraph , or ...
Pagina 10
... English biographies we have is that long thin Folio on Oliver Cromwell , published some five - and - twenty years ago , where the editor has merely clipt - out from the contemporary news- papers whatsoever article , paragraph , or ...
... English biographies we have is that long thin Folio on Oliver Cromwell , published some five - and - twenty years ago , where the editor has merely clipt - out from the contemporary news- papers whatsoever article , paragraph , or ...
Pagina 15
... English readers . Fancy that high Hall , with its seats for fifteen- hundred , rising in amphitheatre to the cornice of the dome ' ; its Tribune elevated to mid air ; Galleries and Ladies ' Gallery full ; President seated ; shrill ...
... English readers . Fancy that high Hall , with its seats for fifteen- hundred , rising in amphitheatre to the cornice of the dome ' ; its Tribune elevated to mid air ; Galleries and Ladies ' Gallery full ; President seated ; shrill ...
Pagina 16
... English , French . ' From all sides . The Three Nations , Vivent les trois nations ! Vive la Liberté ! ' Lady - speaker . The union of the Three free Peoples is to be cemented : forbid not us also , Messieurs , to contribute towards ...
... English , French . ' From all sides . The Three Nations , Vivent les trois nations ! Vive la Liberté ! ' Lady - speaker . The union of the Three free Peoples is to be cemented : forbid not us also , Messieurs , to contribute towards ...
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The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essays Thomas Carlyle Volledige weergave - 1899 |
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Pagina 451 - While earnest thou gazest, Comes boding of terror, Comes phantasm and error; Perplexes the bravest With doubt and misgiving. But heard are the Voices, Heard are the Sages, The Worlds and the Ages: " Choose well ; your choice is Brief, and yet endless. " Here eyes do regard you, In Eternity's stillness ; Here is all fulness, Ye brave, to reward you ; Work, and despair not.
Pagina 61 - ... breeches, and well-polished jockey-boots of the less distinguished cavaliers about him. Dr. Wollaston was in black; and with his noble serene dignity of countenance might have passed for a sporting archbishop.
Pagina 381 - I believe to be, in a deeper or less deep degree, the universal one ; and that every student and reader of History, who strives earnestly to conceive for himself what manner of Fact and Man this or the other vague Historical Name can have been, will, as the first and directest indication of all, search eagerly for a Portrait, for all the reasonable Portraits there are ; and never rest till he have made out, if possible, what the man's natural face was like. Often I have found a Portrait superior...
Pagina 67 - We might say in a short word, which means a long matter, that your Shakspeare fashions his characters from the heart outwards ; your Scott fashions them from the skin inwards, never getting near the heart of them...
Pagina 433 - I believe you will find in all histories of nations, that this has been at the origin and foundation of them all ; and that no nation which did not contemplate this wonderful universe with an awestricken and reverential belief that there was a great unknown, omnipotent, and all-wise and all-just Being, superintending all men in it, and all interests in it, — no nation ever came to very much, nor did any man either, who forgot that. If a man did forget that, he forgot the most important part of...
Pagina 123 - The widow is gathering nettles for her children's dinner ; a perfumed Seigneur, delicately lounging in the CEil-de-Boeuf, has an alchemy whereby he will extract from her the third nettle, and name it Rent and Law : such an arrangement must end.
Pagina 149 - rights of man,' this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.
Pagina 223 - The lieutenant of Ireland came but on Monday to town late, on Tuesday rested, on Wednesday came to parliament, but ere night he was caged. Intolerable pride and oppression cries to Heaven for a vengeance. The lower house closed their doors, the speaker kept the keys till his accusation was concluded. Thereafter Mr. Pym went up, with a number at his back, to the higher house ; and, in a pretty short speech, did, in the name of the...
Pagina 332 - Exeter-Hall friends ; this, that he shall be permitted, encouraged, and if need be, compelled to do what work the Maker of him has intended by the making of him for this world!
Pagina 381 - Often I have found a Portrait superior in real instruction to half-a-dozen written "Biographies," as Biographies are written; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait was as a small lighted candle by which the Biographies could for the first time be read, and some human interpretation be made of them...