 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 304 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-fann, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff... | |
 | Sarah A. Tooley - 1884 - 300 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 farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like... | |
 | 1885 - 612 pages
...amid desolate, heathery hills " Emerson found " the lonely scholar nourishing his mighty heart " 3 and " as absolute a man of the world unknown and exiled...if holding on his own terms what is best in London ;" till finally in London he became and remained for nearly half a century not only the foremost English... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 308 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...what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff -like brow, self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 314 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 hillfarm, as if holding in his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed,... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 288 pages
...readers, and as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hillfarm, as if holding in his own terms what is best 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... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 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 farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 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 farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 192 pages
...house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. " (Jarlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need...absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill farm, 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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