Gallery of notable men and women, compiled by the editor of 'The treasury of modern biography'W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1879 - 224 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... afterwards married . There were many bonds of union between them , - they thought alike in politics , and they were alike sharers in the troubles and dangers of the time ; and there is nothing like misfortune to cement closely the bonds ...
... afterwards married . There were many bonds of union between them , - they thought alike in politics , and they were alike sharers in the troubles and dangers of the time ; and there is nothing like misfortune to cement closely the bonds ...
Pagina 37
... afterwards described him as cultured and intelligent , and as possessing literary tastes . His mother , whose maiden name was Penson , was the daughter of an English officer , with the gift of writing letters , which displayed strong ...
... afterwards described him as cultured and intelligent , and as possessing literary tastes . His mother , whose maiden name was Penson , was the daughter of an English officer , with the gift of writing letters , which displayed strong ...
Pagina 42
... afterwards learned , to this worthy man's great indignation ) , I was transferred to the care , first of a blockhead , who was in a perpetual panic lest I should expose his ignorance ; and , finally , to that of a respectable scholar ...
... afterwards learned , to this worthy man's great indignation ) , I was transferred to the care , first of a blockhead , who was in a perpetual panic lest I should expose his ignorance ; and , finally , to that of a respectable scholar ...
Pagina 52
... afterwards , so long as I remained in Wales , I subsisted either on blackberries , hips , haws , etc. , or on the casual hospitalities which I now and then received , in return for such little services as I had an opportunity of ...
... afterwards , so long as I remained in Wales , I subsisted either on blackberries , hips , haws , etc. , or on the casual hospitalities which I now and then received , in return for such little services as I had an opportunity of ...
Pagina 55
... ! I could offer her no other assistance . We lay upon the floor , with a bundle of cursed law papers for a pillow , but with no other covering than a sort of large horseman's cloak ; afterwards , however , we THOMAS DE QUINCEY . 55.
... ! I could offer her no other assistance . We lay upon the floor , with a bundle of cursed law papers for a pillow , but with no other covering than a sort of large horseman's cloak ; afterwards , however , we THOMAS DE QUINCEY . 55.
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afterwards amongst amusing appeared Baillie Baillie of Jerviswoode became biographer Bithoor British called Carlyle's Cawnpore character cheerful child command cottage daughter death door Edinburgh Review enemy England English Eton eyes father fear feel fire French Revolution friends gave Greek Grizell hand happy Havelock head heard heart honour hope Hugh Wheeler India intellectual Lady LADY GRIZELL BAILLIE Lasswade laudanum laugh letters literary lived London looked Lord Macaulay Malay manner ment mind morning mother nature never night occasion opium opium-eater Oxford Street passed person pleasure poor Quincey Quincey's reader regarding regiment remarkable returned Sartor Resartus seemed sent servant Sir James Outram Sir Patrick sister sleep soldiers spirit suffering suppose things Thomas Carlyle THOMAS DE QUINCEY thou thought tion took troops wife wish words write wrote young
Populaire passages
Pagina 80 - But I took it:— and in an hour, oh heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me! That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes:— this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me— in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed.
Pagina 80 - ... of the world within me ! That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes : — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea — a ^UMO-/ nviyStt for all human woes: here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages...
Pagina 168 - He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command; clinging to his northern accent with evident relish; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor, which floated everything he looked upon.
Pagina 56 - The poor child crept close to me for warmth, and for security against her ghostly enemies. When I was not more than usually ill, I took her into my arms, so that, in general, she was tolerably warm, and often slept when I could not...
Pagina 88 - I honour the barbarians too much by supposing them capable of any pleasures approaching to the intellectual ones of an Englishman. For music is an intellectual or a sensual pleasure according to the temperament of him who hears it.
Pagina 82 - ... the loves and the hatreds, of the drinker; opium, on the contrary, communicates serenity and equipoise to all the faculties, active or passive; and, with respect to the temper and moral feelings in general, it gives simply that sort of vital warmth which is approved by the judgment, and which would probably always accompany a bodily constitution of primeval or antediluvian health.
Pagina 170 - We went out to walk over long hills, and looked at Criffel, then without his cap, and down into Wordsworth's country. There we sat down, and talked of the immortality of the soul. It was not Carlyle's fault that we talked on that topic, for he had the natural disinclination of every nimble spirit to bruise itself against walls, and did not like to place himself where no step can be taken. But he was honest and true, and cognizant of the subtile links that bind ages together, and saw how every event...
Pagina 108 - ... such a stormy night) place only two cups and saucers on the tea-tray ; and, if you know how to paint such a thing symbolically, or otherwise, paint me an eternal tea-pot, — eternal a parte ante, and a parte post ; for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four in the morning.
Pagina 168 - I found the house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart.
Pagina 119 - He was not a reassuring man for nervous people to live with, as those nights were exceptions on which he didn't set something on fire, the commonest incident being for some one to look up from work or book to say casually, ' Papa, your hair is on fire,' of which a calm ' Is it, my love?' and a hand rubbing out the blaze was all the notice taken.