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 8
... person from without could gain a glimpse of the inside and thus descry its tenant . With the assistance of the carpenter , in secret and in the darkness of night , a bed and bedding had been conveyed into this asylum so as to make it a ...
... person from without could gain a glimpse of the inside and thus descry its tenant . With the assistance of the carpenter , in secret and in the darkness of night , a bed and bedding had been conveyed into this asylum so as to make it a ...
Pagina 20
... person , very handsome , and with a 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 ...
... person , very handsome , and with a 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 ...
Pagina 30
... person was tall and commanding , her eyes dark , bright , and tearless ; but their very brightness spoke of sorrow - of sorrow too deep to be swept away ; and her raven tresses were parted over an open brow , clear and pure as the ...
... person was tall and commanding , her eyes dark , bright , and tearless ; but their very brightness spoke of sorrow - of sorrow too deep to be swept away ; and her raven tresses were parted over an open brow , clear and pure as the ...
Pagina 49
... persons , there- fore , find everywhere a due sense of their claims already established , except among those who are ignorant of the world , by virtue of their own obscurity : ' Not to know them , argues oneself unknown . ' Their ...
... persons , there- fore , find everywhere a due sense of their claims already established , except among those who are ignorant of the world , by virtue of their own obscurity : ' Not to know them , argues oneself unknown . ' Their ...
Pagina 51
... person whom he had never seen ; and I thought of letting him know my mind in Greek , which , at the same time . that it would furnish some presumption that I was no swindler , would also , I hoped , compel the bishop to reply in the ...
... person whom he had never seen ; and I thought of letting him know my mind in Greek , which , at the same time . that it would furnish some presumption that I was no swindler , would also , I hoped , compel the bishop to reply in the ...
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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.