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 3
... possible , intellectual association through the medium of the printed page may still be possible , and is perhaps the next best thing . And so with the present Gallery of Notables the judicious reader may interest himself in , and keep ...
... possible , intellectual association through the medium of the printed page may still be possible , and is perhaps the next best thing . And so with the present Gallery of Notables the judicious reader may interest himself in , and keep ...
Pagina 13
... possible , instantly began to make preparations for his departure ; and Grizell's nimble fingers plied night and day in making the necessary alterations in her father's dress , so that he might as nearly as possible look the character ...
... possible , instantly began to make preparations for his departure ; and Grizell's nimble fingers plied night and day in making the necessary alterations in her father's dress , so that he might as nearly as possible look the character ...
Pagina 14
... possible , to arrest him ; it was only the cool and unconcerned manner in which he rode past them , aided by his disguise as a village surgeon , that saved him from being recognised and captured . When his enemies , however , were once ...
... possible , to arrest him ; it was only the cool and unconcerned manner in which he rode past them , aided by his disguise as a village surgeon , that saved him from being recognised and captured . When his enemies , however , were once ...
Pagina 62
... possible one ; I had rather feared , whenever my Jewish friends scrutinized me keenly , that I might be too well known to be that person , and that some scheme might be passing in their minds for entrapping me and selling me to my ...
... possible one ; I had rather feared , whenever my Jewish friends scrutinized me keenly , that I might be too well known to be that person , and that some scheme might be passing in their minds for entrapping me and selling me to my ...
Pagina 66
... possible goodness of the human heart — or , as I must add with a sigh , of its possible vileness . So thick a curtain of manners is drawn over the features and expression of men's natures , that , to the ordinary observer , the two ...
... possible goodness of the human heart — or , as I must add with a sigh , of its possible vileness . So thick a curtain of manners is drawn over the features and expression of men's natures , that , to the ordinary observer , the two ...
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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
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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.