Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life : 1795-1835, العدد 25،المجلد 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1882 |
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الصفحة 30 - soured on his stomach" (oh, Heaven!), and it was plainly my duty as a Christian wife to bake at home. So I sent for Cobbett's Cottage Economy, and fell to work at a loaf of bread. But knowing nothing about the process of fermentation or the heat of ovens, it came to pass that my loaf got put into the oven at the time...
الصفحة 117 - Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel war und wollt uns gar verschlingen, so fürchten wir uns nicht so sehr, es soll uns doch gelingen.
الصفحة 440 - ... of a printed nightgown in which he always writes, commences the liveliest dialogue on philosophy and the prospects of man (who is to be beyond measure 'happy' yet); which again he will courteously terminate the moment you are bound to go: a most interesting, pitiable, lovable man, to be used kindly but with discretion.
الصفحة 436 - Craigenputtock, an outlook from the back windows into more leafy regions, with here and there a red highpeaked old roof looking through, and see nothing of London except by day the summits of St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, and by night the gleam of the great Babylon, affronting the peaceful skies.
الصفحة 30 - I had gone with my husband to live on a little estate of peat bog, that had descended to me, all the way down from John Welsh, the Covenanter, who married a daughter of John Knox. That didn't...
الصفحة 439 - ... engaged, and just pausing, in a violent hornpipe. On these and around them and over the dusty table and ragged carpet lie all kinds of litter — books, papers, egg-shells, scissors, and last night when I was there the torn heart of a half-quartern loaf.
الصفحة 38 - that you will treat me as something worse than an ass when I say that I am firmly persuaded the great source of your extravagance, and of all that makes your writings intolerable to many and ridiculous to not a few, is not so much any real peculiarity of opinions, as an unlucky ambition to appear more original than you are...
الصفحة 357 - ... and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command ; clinging to his northern accent with evident relish; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor, which floated everything lie looked upon.
الصفحة 31 - ... aching with a sense of forlornness and degradation. That I, who had been so petted at home, whose comfort had been studied by everybody in the house, who had never been required to do anything but cultivate my mind, should have to pass all those hours of the night in watching a loaf of bread—which mightn't turn out bread after all!
الصفحة 296 - I tell her many times there is much for her to do if she were trained to it : her whole sex to deliver from the bondage of frivolity, dollhood, and imbecility, into the freedom of valour and womanhood.