Thomas Carlyle: The Man and His Books : Illustrated by Personal Reminiscences, Table-talk, and Anecdotes of Himself and His Friends |
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Page 195 - to be most of all associated in the minds of men. " Great men," he said, " are the fire pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind ; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed embodied possibilities of human nature.
Page 243 - and down into Wordsworth's country? "Christ died on the tree ; that built Dunscore kirk yonder ; that brought you and me together. Time has only a relative existence." So in the poem, there is at least a kindred thought :— From Being's Source it bounded The
Page 242 - alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom ; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.' In which little thought, as in a little fountain, may there not lie the beginning of those well-nigh unutterable meditations on the grandeur and mystery of Time,
Page 133 - that this odious slang infects almost all his prose and a very great proportion of his poetry, and communicates to both a character of immorality at once contemptible and hateful ; and that his apology is to be found in the original lowness of his situation, and the slightness of his acquaintance with the world."* Even
Page 98 - Give that to your hungry courtiers," said Mrs Welsh, offended at his profaneness. At last he told her, if she would persuade her husband to submit to the bishops, he would grant her prayer. . Mrs Welsh, lifting her apron, and holding it to the monarch, replied,
Page 56 - ours was the worst of all hitherto discovered Universities." The professors, " stationed at the gates, to declare aloud that it was a University, and exact considerable admission fees," he pictures as no better than the " hide-bound pedants " and " mechanical Gerund-grinders " of Dumfriesshire, concerning whom he had already declared that, in a subsequent century, teachers quite as effective
Page 108 - Sterling, one of these that came back with special force was the spectacle of the Spanish Refugees, " the Trocadero swarm, thrown off in 1823," who, to the number of fifty or a hundred, perambulated, " mostly with closed lips, the broad pavements of Euston Square and the regions about St Paneras' new Church.
Page 23 - And the woodman's axe has been laid years ago to the root of the grand old tree, so long the pride of the villagers, which stretched "like a parasol of twenty ells in radius, overtopping all other rows and clumps;" but there are many people yet alive who