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
... wrote the story of the eventful life of her mother . And beautiful is the character she has drawn of a wise , brave , ready - witted , and affectionate child , and of a life full of self - devotion for the good of others . The Lady ...
... wrote the story of the eventful life of her mother . And beautiful is the character she has drawn of a wise , brave , ready - witted , and affectionate child , and of a life full of self - devotion for the good of others . The Lady ...
Pagina 14
... wrote for his wife and children to join him . The prey having escaped from their clutches , the Govern- ment wreaked upon Sir Patrick the only punishment it was in their power to inflict : they forfeited his estates and gave them to ...
... wrote for his wife and children to join him . The prey having escaped from their clutches , the Govern- ment wreaked upon Sir Patrick the only punishment it was in their power to inflict : they forfeited his estates and gave them to ...
Pagina 41
... wrote Greek with ease ; and at fifteen my command of that language was so great , that I not only composed Greek verses in lyric metres , but could converse in Greek fluently , and without embarrassment - an accomplish- ment which I ...
... wrote Greek with ease ; and at fifteen my command of that language was so great , that I not only composed Greek verses in lyric metres , but could converse in Greek fluently , and without embarrassment - an accomplish- ment which I ...
Pagina 43
... boys . Money being what I chiefly wanted , I wrote to a woman of high rank , who , though young herself , had known me from a child , and had latterly treated me with great distinction , requesting that she would ' THOMAS DE QUINCEY . 43.
... boys . Money being what I chiefly wanted , I wrote to a woman of high rank , who , though young herself , had known me from a child , and had latterly treated me with great distinction , requesting that she would ' THOMAS DE QUINCEY . 43.
Pagina 52
... wrote letters of business for cottagers , who happened to have relatives in Liverpool or in London ; more often I wrote love - letters to their sweethearts for young women who had lived as servants in Shrewsbury , or other towns on the ...
... wrote letters of business for cottagers , who happened to have relatives in Liverpool or in London ; more often I wrote love - letters to their sweethearts for young women who had lived as servants in Shrewsbury , or other towns on 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.