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 5
... light in which they regarded him ; he was soon made to feel the effects of their resentment , and learn from bitter experience that it is no light matter to run counter to the actions and intentions of despotic power . Thus his eldest ...
... light in which they regarded him ; he was soon made to feel the effects of their resentment , and learn from bitter experience that it is no light matter to run counter to the actions and intentions of despotic power . Thus his eldest ...
Pagina 8
... light managed to struggle in ; fortunately the slit was so situated that no curious person from without could gain a glimpse of the inside and thus descry its With the assistance of the carpenter , in secret and in the darkness of night ...
... light managed to struggle in ; fortunately the slit was so situated that no curious person from without could gain a glimpse of the inside and thus descry its With the assistance of the carpenter , in secret and in the darkness of night ...
Pagina 12
... light ; yet before the hole was deemed sufficiently large , she had actually worn away her finger - nails . The dirt was put into a sheet and conveyed by the carpenter out of the window . He made the box at his own house , and one night ...
... light ; yet before the hole was deemed sufficiently large , she had actually worn away her finger - nails . The dirt was put into a sheet and conveyed by the carpenter out of the window . He made the box at his own house , and one night ...
Pagina 19
... light of them , regarding them as subjects of amusement , and to be laughed over rather than grieved for . The learned pundits of the University of Utrecht frequently paid her father a visit . His means would not allow him to regale ...
... light of them , regarding them as subjects of amusement , and to be laughed over rather than grieved for . The learned pundits of the University of Utrecht frequently paid her father a visit . His means would not allow him to regale ...
Pagina 20
... light and sweetness in her eyes very uncommon , and great delicacy in all her features ; her hair was chestnut , and to her last she had the finest complexion , with the clearest red on her cheeks and lips that could be seen in one of ...
... light and sweetness in her eyes very uncommon , and great delicacy in all her features ; her hair was chestnut , and to her last she had the finest complexion , with the clearest red on her cheeks and lips that could be seen in one of ...
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affection afterwards allow appeared asked became British called Carlyle character cheerful child command daughter death door early Edinburgh enemy England English entered expressed eyes face father fear feel fire friends gave give Grizell hand happy Havelock head heard heart hope interesting kind Lady learned letters light lived London looked Lord Macaulay manner matter mind morning mother nature never night occasion once opium passed perhaps person pleasure poor present published Quincey reached reader reason received regarding remained remarkable rest returned seemed sent sister soldiers sometimes soon speak spirit Street successful suffering suppose taken things thought took troops true turned weeks whole wish 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.