The Modern British Essayists: Carlyle, Thomas. Critical and miscellaneous essaysA. Hart, 1852 |
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... scene ; full , princes , and privy - councillors , and serene indeed , of wondrous products , and rude , it highnesses ; most of whom , odd enough fel- may be , and irregular ; but gorgeous , and lows every way , are Richter's private ...
... scene ; full , princes , and privy - councillors , and serene indeed , of wondrous products , and rude , it highnesses ; most of whom , odd enough fel- may be , and irregular ; but gorgeous , and lows every way , are Richter's private ...
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... scenes which , with palpitating heart , he would hurry into deepest night ? This , too , ob- serve , respects not their genius , but their cul- ture ; not their appropriation of beauties , but their rejection of deformities , by ...
... scenes which , with palpitating heart , he would hurry into deepest night ? This , too , ob- serve , respects not their genius , but their cul- ture ; not their appropriation of beauties , but their rejection of deformities , by ...
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... scenes , without interrupting , without lessening their peaceful solitude . The execution testifies a master's hand ; easy , with a few sure strokes , and yet complete . In his later pieces , he em- ployed glittering English permanent ...
... scenes , without interrupting , without lessening their peaceful solitude . The execution testifies a master's hand ; easy , with a few sure strokes , and yet complete . In his later pieces , he em- ployed glittering English permanent ...
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... scene of past convulsions and controversies , as Germans will plead not guilty . On the contra- on a scene blackened and burnt up with fire ; ry , they will not scruple to assert that their lite- mourning in the darkness , because there ...
... scene of past convulsions and controversies , as Germans will plead not guilty . On the contra- on a scene blackened and burnt up with fire ; ry , they will not scruple to assert that their lite- mourning in the darkness , because there ...
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... scene after scene of gorgeousness or gloom ; till at last the whole rises before us like a wild phan- tasmagoria ; cloud heaped on cloud , painted indeed here and there with prismatic hues , but representing nothing , or at least not ...
... scene after scene of gorgeousness or gloom ; till at last the whole rises before us like a wild phan- tasmagoria ; cloud heaped on cloud , painted indeed here and there with prismatic hues , but representing nothing , or at least not ...
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ADALBERT already altogether appears beauty Burns called cern character Christian Gottlob Heyne clear critics dark death deep divine earnest earth endeavour existence external eyes father Faust feeling Franz Horn Friedrich Schlegel genius German German Literature Goethe Goethe's Göttingen ground hand happy heart Heldenbuch Helena Heyne highest Hitzig honour humour infinite intellectual labour learned less light literary Literature living look Lynceus man's matter means ment Mephistopheles mind moral mystic nature ness never Nibelungen noble Novalis nowise perhaps Philosophy PHORCYAS Phosphoros piece poem poet poetic Poetry poor Protestantism racter readers reckon regard Religion Richter scene Schiller seems sense Shakspeare singular sorrow sort soul speak spirit stand strange strength thee things thou thought tion true truth ture virtue Voltaire Werner whole wise wonderful words worth writings Zacharias Werner
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Página 331 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
Página 101 - Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .¿Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities: a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.
Página 108 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.
Página 105 - A wish (I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Página 12 - True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is love ; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Página 32 - The cold, colossal, adamantine spirit, standing erect and clear, like a Cato Major among degenerate men ; fit to have been the teacher of the Stoa, and to have discoursed of Beauty and Virtue in the groves of Academe...
Página 25 - Let some beneficent divinity snatch him, when a suckling, from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time, that he may ripen to his full stature beneath a distant Grecian sky. And having grown to manhood, let him return, a foreign shape, into his century ; not, however, to delight it by his presence, but dreadful, like the Son of Agamemnon, to purify it.
Página 106 - Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with necessity ; begins even when we have surrendered to necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to necessity, and thus in reality triumphed over it, and felt that in necessity we are free.
Página 130 - Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation...
Página 108 - I never saw a man in company with his superiors in station or information more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I was told, but did not observe it, that his address to females was extremely deferential, and always with a turn either to the pathetic or humorous, which engaged their attention particularly. I have heard the late Duchess of Gordon remark this. — I do not know anything I can add to these recollections of forty years since.