 | Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - 256 pages
...'personality,' 'indiscretion,' or worse, ' sanctities of private life,' &c. &c. How delicate, decent is English Biography, bless its mealy mouth ! A Damocles' sword of Respectability hangs forever over the poor English Life-writer (as it does over poor English Life in general), and reduces... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1869 - 968 pages
...personality," "indiscretion," or worse, "sanctities of private life," &c. &c. How delicate, decent is English Biography, bless its mealy mouth ! A Damocles' sword of Respectability hangs forever over the poor English Life-writer (as it does over poor English Life in general), and reduces... | |
 | American essays - 1882 - 886 pages
...New York : Charles however flattering. He never hid his faults. He hated the "delicate, decent . . . English biography, bless its mealy mouth ! A Damocles sword of Respectability hangs forever over the poor English life -writer (as it does over poor English life in general), and reduces... | |
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personality," " indiscretion," or worse, " sanctities of private life," etc. etc. How delicate, decent is English Biography, bless its mealy mouth ! A Damocles' sword of Respectability hangs for ever over the poor English Lifewriter (as it does over... 
