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Pagina 87
... Carlyle's criticism ( see , for example , his analysis and exposition of Goethe's " Helena " ) is the sleuth - hound instinct with which he presses on to the matter of his theme , never turned aside by a false scent , regardless of the ...
... Carlyle's criticism ( see , for example , his analysis and exposition of Goethe's " Helena " ) is the sleuth - hound instinct with which he presses on to the matter of his theme , never turned aside by a false scent , regardless of the ...
Pagina 90
... Carlyle's own tendency was toward the lawless , and the attraction of Jean Paul made it an overmastering one ... Carlyle has no artistic sense of form or rhythm , scarcely of proportion . Accordingly he looks on verse with contempt as ...
... Carlyle's own tendency was toward the lawless , and the attraction of Jean Paul made it an overmastering one ... Carlyle has no artistic sense of form or rhythm , scarcely of proportion . Accordingly he looks on verse with contempt as ...
Pagina 94
... Carlyle's irritability is to be laid to the account of his early schoolmastership at Kirkcaldy . This great booby World is such a dull boy , and will not learn the lesson we have taken such pains in ex- pounding for the fiftieth time ...
... Carlyle's irritability is to be laid to the account of his early schoolmastership at Kirkcaldy . This great booby World is such a dull boy , and will not learn the lesson we have taken such pains in ex- pounding for the fiftieth time ...
Pagina 96
... Carlyle will not let us make a lever with a rail from the next fence , or call in the neighbors . That would be too commonplace and cowardly , too an- archical . No ; he would have us sit down ... Carlyle's later writings , then 96 CARLYLE.
... Carlyle will not let us make a lever with a rail from the next fence , or call in the neighbors . That would be too commonplace and cowardly , too an- archical . No ; he would have us sit down ... Carlyle's later writings , then 96 CARLYLE.
Pagina 97
James Russell Lowell. very like cant in Mr. Carlyle's later writings , then cant is not the repetition of a creed ... Carlyle denounces so energetically in his fellow- men of that conscious kind . I do not mean to blame him for it , but ...
James Russell Lowell. very like cant in Mr. Carlyle's later writings , then cant is not the repetition of a creed ... Carlyle denounces so energetically in his fellow- men of that conscious kind . I do not mean to blame him for it , but ...
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Pagina 222 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Pagina 206 - The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Pagina 14 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Pagina 296 - From Paul's I went, to Eton sent, To learn straightways the Latin phrase, Where fifty-three stripes given to me At once I had. For fault but small, or none at all, It came to pass thus beat I was; See, Udal, see the mercy of thee To me, poor lad.
Pagina 43 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Pagina 13 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers...
Pagina 247 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Pagina 324 - Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
Pagina 312 - The displaying of supposed Witchcraft. Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of Deceivers and Impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of Melancholy and Fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the Devil and the Witch, or that he sucks on the Witches body, has carnal copulation, or that Witches are turned into Cats, Dogs, raise Tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved.
Pagina 40 - Moores, which wilbe more gaynefull pilladge for us than wee conceive, for I doe not see how wee can thrive untill wee gett into a stock of slaves sufficient to doe all our...