Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, Volúmenes1-2Harper, 1883 - 133 páginas |
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Addiscombe affectionate JANE asked Auchtertool beautiful bedroom bless breakfast Buller called Carlyle's carriage Chelsea Cheyne Row cold comfort Craigenputtock dear dearest dinner doctor door Dumfries Dumfriesshire East Lothian Ecclefechan Edinburgh fancy feel Geraldine Gill girl give glad gone Haddington hand head heart Helen Holm Hill hope hour husband J. W. C. LETTER JANE CARLYLE JANE WELSH CARLYLE Jeannie John John Sterling keep kind Kirkcaldy Lady last night live Liverpool London look Lord Mazzini mind Miss Monday morning mother never one's pain poor pretty quiet Russell Scotland Scotsbrig seemed sent servant silence sleep sort stay Sterling Sunday sure tell thank thing Thomas Carlyle Thornhill thought Thurso to-day to-morrow told took Troston walk week Welsh wish woman write yesterday young
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Página 26 - O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak : O Lord, heal me ; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed : but thou, O Lord how long? Return, O Lord, deliver my soul : oh save me for thy mercies
Página 40 - I know not whether this book is worth anything, nor what the world will do with it, or misdo, or entirely forbear to do, as is likeliest ; but this I could tell the world : You have not had for a hundred years any book that comes more direct and flamingly from the heart of a living man.
Página 47 - Unhappy Melina! not in thy condition, but in thyself lies the mean impediment over which thou canst not gain the mastery. What mortal in the world, if without inward calling he take up a trade, an art, or any mode of life, will not feel his situation miserable? But he who is born with capacities for any undertaking, finds in executing this the fairest portion of his being. Nothing upon earth without its difficulties!
Página 61 - Oh, my dear! What a magnificent book this is going to be ! The best of all your books. I say so, who never flatter, as you are too well aware; and who am ' the only person I know that is always in the right!
Página 209 - Oh, my own darling! God have pity on us! Ever since the day after you left, whatever flattering accounts may have been sent you, the truth is I have been wretched — perfectly wretched day and night with that horrible malady. Dr. B. knows nothing about it more than the other doctors. So, God help me, for on earth is no help!
Página 87 - I cannot tell you how woe his little gift made me, as well as glad ; it was the first thing of the kind he ever gave to me in his life. In great matters he is always kind and considerate; but these little attentions, which we women attach so much importance to, he was never in the habit of rendering to anyone; his up-bringing, and the severe turn of mind he has from nature had alike indisposed him towards them.
Página 11 - For in spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ety, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half; I still find myself a selfsubsisting, and alas! self-seeking me. Little Felix, in the Wanderjahre, when, in the midst of an animated scene between Wilhelm and Theresa, he pulls Theresa's gown, and calls out, 'Mama Theresa I too am here!
Página 7 - She actually borrowed one of the brass fenders the other day, and I had difficulty in getting it out of her hands ; irons, glasses, teacups, silver spoons are in constant requisition; and when one sends for them the whole number can never be found.
Página 73 - Carlyle is reading voraciously preparatory to writing a new book. For the rest he growls away much in the old style. But one gets to feel a certain indifference to his growling ; if one did not, it would be the worse for one.
Página 99 - If ever one is to pray — if ever one is to feel grave and anxious — if ever one is to shrink from vain show and vain babble — surely it is just on the occasion of two human beings binding themselves to one another, for better and for worse, till death part them...