Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, Volúmenes1-2Scribner, 1883 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Addiscombe affectionate JANE asked Auchtertool beautiful bedroom bless breakfast Buller called 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 JANE CARLYLE JANE WELSH CARLYLE Jeannie John John Sterling keep kind Kirkcaldy kiss Lady last night letter live Liverpool London look Lord Mary 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 Sunny Bank sure tell thank thing Thomas Carlyle Thornhill thought Thurso to-day told took Troston walk week wish woman write yesterday young
Pasajes populares
Página 138 - had done with our next-door neighbour. But blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed. Pray come to tea with me to-morrow evening at seven, if my husband's particular friends ' the Destinies,' alias ' the Upper Powers,' alias ' the Immortal Gods' (your father says you read Mr. C.,
Página 52 - to her, perhaps that very day, ' 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 came more direct and
Página 40 - to that, is a far and a rough road to travel. Oh, little did my mother think, The day she cradled me, The lands I was to travel in, The death I was to dee.
Página 1 - into victorious order. Leigh Hunt was continually sending us notes ; most probably would in person step across before bedtime, and give us an hour of the prettiest melodious discourse. In about a week (it seems to me) all was swept and garnished, fairly habitable ; and continued incessantly to get itself
Página 112 - has from nature, had alike indisposed him towards them. And now the desire to replace to me the irreplaceable, makes him as good in little things as he used to be in great. Helen's box arrived this morning; so like a Templand box ! Alas, alas ! those preserves! I had thought about making some all
Página 268 - This Lady Harriet Baring, whom we have just been staying with, is the very cleverest woman, out of sight, that I ever saw in my life (and I have seen all our 'distinguished authoresses'); moreover, she is full of energy and sincerity, and has, I am sure, an excellent heart; yet
Página 78 - hindered from sleeping is quite another thing from not being able to sleep. I hope you found a fire when you got home, and some reasonable good tea. If you could fancy me in some part of the house out of sight, my absence would make little difference, considering how little I see of you, and
Página 366 - may get it ?' and boxed my ears. I wasn't taken to walk on account of its being wet. And nobody came, but a man for ' burial rate'; and my mistress gave him a rowing, because she wasn't going to be buried here at all. Columbine and I don't mind where we are buried. This is a
Página 166 - would have said, its last deadly struggle with the powers of darkness. There was one man, in particular, with a baby in his arms; and a young girl that seemed of the ' unfortunate' sort, that gave me an insight into the lot of humanity that I still wanted. And in the face of Father
Página 246 - soldier who gathered his arms full of the enemy's spears, and received them all into his own breast.' It is this which makes a change of servants, even when for the better, a terror to me in prospect, and an agony in realisation—for a time. LETTER 263. Mrs. Braid, Edinburgh. 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea: Christmas Day,