 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
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1894 - 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...in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, selfpossessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command; clinging... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 428 pages
...brought from Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale, in the parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant. No public coach passed near...in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a clifflike brow/ self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command ; clinging... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 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...in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed and holding Ms extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command ; clinging... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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 clifflike brow, self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command ; clinging... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 462 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 - 1921 - 584 pages
...the inn. I found the house arnid 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, selfpossessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command; clinging... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...the inn. I found the house amid 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 ia best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, selfpossessed and holding his extraordinary... | |
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 364 pages
...the inn. I found the house amid 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 - 1926 - 398 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 clitf-like brow, self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 310 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... | |
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