The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essaysC. Scribner's Sons, 1899 |
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Abbé Atheism Balsamo become behold Beppo better Biography Boehmer Book Boswell Boswell's Buffière Cagliostro century character Comte de Cagliostro Corn-Law Count Countess dark Denis Diderot Destiny Devil Diderot divine Earth Encyclopédie Eternity existence faculty father feeling fixed-idea foolish forever France French French Revolution genius Georgel grand hand head heart Heaven highest History human infinite innumerable Isle of Rhé James Boswell Jesuit kind King labour Lamotte Lettre de Cachet lies light living look man's Manosque matter meaning Mémoires mind Mirabeau Monseigneur moral mysterious Nature Necklace never nevertheless nowise old Marquis once Pailly Palermo Paris perhaps Philosophe poetic Pontarlier poor Quack Queen reader Reality Riquetti Rohan Samuel Johnson Saverne sort soul speak spirit stand Strasburg thee things thither thou thought tion true truth virtue wherein whole wholly wonder word worth write
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Stran 99 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; ' till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my...
Stran 125 - Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago I desired to atone for this fault. I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bareheaded in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.
Stran 111 - By spending threepence in a coffee-house, he might be for some hours every day in very good company ; he might dine for sixpence, breakfast on bread and milk for a penny, and do without supper. On clean-shirtday he went abroad, and paid visits.
Stran 125 - Madam, I beg your pardon for the abruptness of my departure from your house this morning, but I was constrained to it by my conscience. Fifty years ago, Madam, on this day, I committed a breach of filial piety, which has ever since lain heavy on my mind, and has not till this day been expiated.
Stran 75 - Life of Johnson has Time done, is Time still doing, what no ornament of Art or Artifice could have done for it. Rough Samuel and sleek wheedling James were, and are not. Their Life and whole personal Environment has melted into air. The Mitre Tavern still stands in Fleet Street : but where now is its scot-and-lot paying, beef-and-ale loving, cocked-hatted, potbellied Landlord ; its rosy-faced, assiduous Landlady, with all her shining brass-pans, waxed tables, well-filled larder-shelves ; her cooks,...
Stran 52 - For the Past is all holy to us ; the Dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not They, was but the heavy and unmanageable Environment that lay round them, with which they fought unprevailing: they (the ethereal god-given Force that dwelt in them, and was their Self) have now...
Stran 71 - Johnsoniad; a more free, perfect, sunlit and spirit-speaking likeness than for many centuries had been drawn by man of man ! Scarcely since the days of Homer has the feat been equalled; indeed, in many senses, this also is a kind of Heroic Poem.
Stran 123 - Covenant : whoso laid hand on them tore asunder his heart of hearts. Not out of hatred to the opponent, but of love to the thing opposed, did Johnson grow cruel fiercely contradictory : this is an important distinction ; never to be forgotten in our censure of his conversational outrages. But observe also with what humanity, what openness of love, he can attach himself to all things : to a blind old woman, to a Doctor Levett, to a Cat 'Hodge.' 'His 'thoughts in the latter part of his life were fre'quently...
Stran 114 - He then burst into such a fit of laughter, that he appeared to be almost in a convulsion ; and, in order to support himself, laid hold of one of the posts at the side of the foot pavement, and sent forth peals so loud, that in the silence of the night his voice seemed to resound from Temple-bar to Fleetditch.
Stran 69 - Johnsonism. To be envied is the grand and sole aim of vulgar vanity; to be filled with good things is that of sensuality : for Johnson perhaps no man living envied poor Bozzy; and of good things (except himself paid for them) there was no vestige in that acquaintanceship. Had nothing other or better than vanity and sensuality been there, Johnson and Boswell had never come together, or had soon and finally separated again.