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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... stages of human nature , from the gay material vivacity of Philina to the severe moral grandeur of the Uncle and the splendid accomplishment of Lothario , will to most of us be of small importance : and the everlasting disquisitions ...
... stages of human nature , from the gay material vivacity of Philina to the severe moral grandeur of the Uncle and the splendid accomplishment of Lothario , will to most of us be of small importance : and the everlasting disquisitions ...
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... stage combined itself with his earliest love for woman . His youth allowed him to enjoy rich pleasures , which the activity of his fancy exalted and maintained . The situation of his mistress , too , gave a turn to her conduct , which ...
... stage combined itself with his earliest love for woman . His youth allowed him to enjoy rich pleasures , which the activity of his fancy exalted and maintained . The situation of his mistress , too , gave a turn to her conduct , which ...
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... stage . At school , when the elements of general history were related to us , I carefully marked the passages where any person had been slain or poi- soned in a singular way ; and my imagination , glancing rapidly along the exposition ...
... stage . At school , when the elements of general history were related to us , I carefully marked the passages where any person had been slain or poi- soned in a singular way ; and my imagination , glancing rapidly along the exposition ...
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... stage that I aimed at consecrating all my powers ; on the stage that I meant to seek all my happiness and satisfaction . 66 " I recollect a poem , which must be among my papers , where the Muse of tragic art and another female form , by ...
... stage that I aimed at consecrating all my powers ; on the stage that I meant to seek all my happiness and satisfaction . 66 " I recollect a poem , which must be among my papers , where the Muse of tragic art and another female form , by ...
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... stage ; he soared aloft in a world of hopes , only now and then the call of some watchman brought to his recollection that he was still wan- dering on the vulgar earth . Mariana came to the stairs to meet him ; and how beautiful , how ...
... stage ; he soared aloft in a world of hopes , only now and then the call of some watchman brought to his recollection that he was still wan- dering on the vulgar earth . Mariana came to the stairs to meet him ; and how beautiful , 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.