 Dunscore, sixteen miles distant. No public coach passed near it, so I took a private carriage from the inn. I found the house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author...  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 15by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 236 pages
...found the house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did...unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding in his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 pages
...found the house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did...in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command ; clinging... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd - 1881 - 444 pages
...arts." In describing his visit to Carlyle in 1833, Emerson remarks, in a passage already quoted* — " Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did...holding on his own terms what is best in London." The truth of this early judgment on Carlyle is shown in a remarkable manner by the event in his life... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...the lonely house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his youth ; an author who did...that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what was best in London. " He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff -like brow ; holding his extraordinary powers... | |
 | William Howie Wylie - 1881 - 436 pages
...great wit in his talk. He despises evety kind of meanness, every kind of selfishness and of petty sin." unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding...in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command ; clinging... | |
 | William Howie Wylie - 1881 - 444 pages
...found the house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did...not need to hide from his readers, and as absolute man of the world, Mr Carlyle, and I have insisted that he should write them down to be saved. There... | |
 | William Howie Wylie - 1881 - 444 pages
...found the house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did...not need to hide from his readers, and as absolute man of the world, Mr Carlyle, and I have insisted that he should write them down to be saved. There... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - 1881 - 452 pages
...arts." In describing his visit to Carlyle in 1833, Emerson remarks, in a passage already quoted* — " Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need to hide from his readers, aud as absolute a man of the world, unknown aud exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - 1881 - 414 pages
...found the house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need to hide from Ins readers, and as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1882 - 812 pages
...found the house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did...absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill tarm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like... | |
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