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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... party skipped away , frolicking as if they had been tipsy , to their beds ; for my- self , however , I remember that I could not go to sleep : still want- ing to have something told me on the subject , I continued putting questions to ...
... party skipped away , frolicking as if they had been tipsy , to their beds ; for my- self , however , I remember that I could not go to sleep : still want- ing to have something told me on the subject , I continued putting questions to ...
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... party of children were invited : we performed rarely ; except that once , in the fire of action , I let poor Jonathan fall , and was obliged to reach down with my hand and pick him up again ; an accident which sadly marred the illusion ...
... party of children were invited : we performed rarely ; except that once , in the fire of action , I let poor Jonathan fall , and was obliged to reach down with my hand and pick him up again ; an accident which sadly marred the illusion ...
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... party of the Christians , I could not help declaring for the Paynim heroine with all my heart , when she engaged to set on fire the great tower of the besiegers . And when Tancred in the darkness met the sup- posed knight , and the ...
... party of the Christians , I could not help declaring for the Paynim heroine with all my heart , when she engaged to set on fire the great tower of the besiegers . And when Tancred in the darkness met the sup- posed knight , and the ...
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... the epic . But as the passage soon changed into narrative , and I , while speaking , was at once transformed into a third party , and the bold Godfredo when his turn came would not venture forth , BOOK I. CHAP . VII . 27.
... the epic . But as the passage soon changed into narrative , and I , while speaking , was at once transformed into a third party , and the bold Godfredo when his turn came would not venture forth , BOOK I. CHAP . VII . 27.
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... party seeks a preference above the other ; each has loved sooner , more de- votedly ; and each , in this contest , would rather be conquered than conquer . Wilhelm repeated to his mistress , what he had so often told her before , how ...
... party seeks a preference above the other ; each has loved sooner , more de- votedly ; and each , in this contest , would rather be conquered than conquer . Wilhelm repeated to his mistress , what he had so often told her before , how ...
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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.