 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 him to the verge of paralysis. Thus it has...  The Cambridge Review - Page 1151888Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 534 pages
...plain English : hence ' personality,' ' indiscretion,' or worse, ' sanctities of private life,' &c. &e. How delicate, decent is English Biography, bless its...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 - 1869 - 458 pages
...mentioned, and circumstances, not always of an ornamental sort. It would appear there is far less reticence than was looked for ! Various persons, name and surname,...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... | |
 | 1881 - 686 pages
...English : hence " personality," " indiscretion," or worse, "sanctitiesof private life," <fec., Arc. How delicate, decent is English biography, bless its...hangs for ever over the poor English life-writer, and reduces him to the verge of paralysis. The English biographer has long felt that if in writing... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1882 - 590 pages
...plain English : hence ' personality,' ' indiscretion,' or worse 'sanctities of private life,' etc. How delicate, decent, is English biography, bless...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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1882 - 812 pages
...rendered unheroic ; unornamental facts of him, and of those he had to do •with, being set forth iu plain English : hence "personality," "indiscretion," or worse, "sanctities of private life," &c. How delicate, decent, is English biography, bless its mealy mouth ! A Damocles' sword of Respectability... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 88 pages
...English : hence ' personality,' ' indiscretion,' or worse, ' sanctities of private life,' etc. etc. How delicate, decent is English Biography, bless its...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 - 1884 - 494 pages
...mentioned, and circumstances, not always of an ornamental sort. It would appear there is far less reticence than was looked for! Various persons, name and surname,...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... | |
 | 1885 - 612 pages
...English ; hence ' personality,' ' indiscretion,' or, worse, ' sanctities of private life,' etc., etc. How delicate, decent, is English biography, — bless...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... | |
 | Samuel Edger - 1886 - 356 pages
...the Biography is rendered unheroic ; unornamental facts of him, and of those he had to do with him, being set forth in plain English : hence ' personality,'...Respectability hangs for ever over the poor English THOMAS CARLYLE. 235 Life-writer (as it does over poor English Life in general), and reduces him to... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - 256 pages
...mentioned, and circumstances, not always of an ornamental sort. It would appear there is far less reticence than was looked for! Various persons, name and surname,...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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