The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle: Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825). Life of John Sterling (1851)Chapman and Hall, 1858 - Chartism |
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... mind , beaming in mildest mellow splendour , beaming if also trembling , like a great sun on the verge of the horizon , near now to its long farewell , all these things were illuminated and illustrated : but for the mere English reader ...
... mind , beaming in mildest mellow splendour , beaming if also trembling , like a great sun on the verge of the horizon , near now to its long farewell , all these things were illuminated and illustrated : but for the mere English reader ...
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... minds as the representative of a nation that despises him ; Schiller is chiefly known to us by the monstrous production of ... mind . To such as know him by the faint and garbled version of his Werter , Goethe figures as a sort of poetic ...
... minds as the representative of a nation that despises him ; Schiller is chiefly known to us by the monstrous production of ... mind . To such as know him by the faint and garbled version of his Werter , Goethe figures as a sort of poetic ...
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... minds , will soon pause in utter dismay , and their paroxysm of dismay will pass by degrees into unspeakable contempt . Of ... mind that knows not and heeds not whether they are true or false . Yet every man's judgment is , in this free ...
... minds , will soon pause in utter dismay , and their paroxysm of dismay will pass by degrees into unspeakable contempt . Of ... mind that knows not and heeds not whether they are true or false . Yet every man's judgment is , in this free ...
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... minds : to those who have penetrated to the limits of their own conceptions , and wrestled with thoughts and feelings ... mind in the end of the first Book , and the beginning of the second ; the eulogies of commerce and poesy , which ...
... minds : to those who have penetrated to the limits of their own conceptions , and wrestled with thoughts and feelings ... mind in the end of the first Book , and the beginning of the second ; the eulogies of commerce and poesy , which ...
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... mind of Mariana , best bring to her recol- lection what she owed him , and what he had a right to expect from her fidelity and thankfulness . The muslin , with the ribbons half unrolled , to set it off by their colours , lay like a ...
... mind of Mariana , best bring to her recol- lection what she owed him , and what he had a right to expect from her fidelity and thankfulness . The muslin , with the ribbons half unrolled , to set it off by their colours , lay like a ...
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Page 246 - Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?
Page 246 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 200 - There is an oak-tree planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom ; the roots expand, the jar is shivered. " A lovely, pure, noble and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away.
Page 246 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
Page 112 - Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping and watching for the morrow, He knows ye not, ye heavenly Powers.
Page 200 - The time is out of joint : — 0, cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right ! — Nay, come, let 's go together.
Page 71 - ... Poet's inspired lips had skill to show them forth; and even the rich man could not of himself discern such costliness in his idol grandeurs, as when they were presented to him shining in the splendour of the Poet's spirit, sensible to all worth, and ennobling all.
Page 145 - Baroness, in the mean time, had selected Laertes, who, being a spirited and lively young man, pleased her very much; and who, woman-hater as he was, felt unwilling to refuse a passing adventure. He would actually on this occasion have been fettered, against his will, by the courteous and attractive nature of the Baroness, had not the Baron done him accidentally a piece of good, or if you will, of bad service, by instructing him a little in the habits and temper of this lady. Laertes happening once...
Page 4 - Meister have been printed : critics of all ranks, and some of them dissenting widely from its doctrines, have loaded it with encomiums; its songs and poems are familiar to every German ear; the people read it, and speak of it, with an admiration approaching in many cases to enthusiasm. That it will be equally successful in England, I am far indeed from anticipating. Apart from the above considerations, from the curiosity, intelligent or idle, which it may awaken, the number of admiring, or even approving...
Page 178 - ... the vulgar was offensive to him ; and if hatred could take root in his tender soul, it was only so far as to make him properly despise the false and changeful insects of a court, and play with them in easy scorn.