 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...plain English : hence "personality," "indiscretion," or worse, "sanctities of private life," &c. &c. How delicate, decent is English biography, bless its...been said, "there are no English lives worth reading eicept those of Players, who by the nature of the case have bidden Respectability good day." The English... | |
 | William Davis Gallagher, Otway Curry - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...plain English: hence' 'personality,' 'indiscretion,' or worse, 'sanctities of private life,' &c. &c. How delicate, decent is English biography, bless its mealy mouth ! A Damocles' sword of Res158 159 pectability hangs forever over the poor English life-writer (as it does over the poor English... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...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...the nature ' of the case have bidden Respectability good-day.' The English biographer has long felt that if in writing his Man's Biography, he wrote down... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...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...paralysis. Thus it has been said, ' there are no English live> ' worth reading except those of Players, who by the nature 'of the case have bidden Respectability... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...English: hence ' personality,' ' indiscretion,' or worse, ' sanctities of private life,' &c. &cHow 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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...real, and you in the pulpit speak of things real as if they were imaginary." It has been observed that there are no English lives worth reading except those...the nature of the case, have bidden Respectability good-day"; and a grave literary critic explains on higher ground than this abandon, why there is an... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...plain English : hence ' personality,' ' indiscretion,' or worse, ' sanctities of private life,' &c. &c. 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 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...plain English: hence ' personality,' ' indiscretion,' or worse, ' sanctities of private life,' &c. &c. 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...plain English: hence 'personality,' 'indiscretion,' or worse, ' sanctities of private life,' &c. &c. 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... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 700
...English : hence " personality," " india.cretion," or worse, '-'sanctitiesof private life," &c., etc. How delicate, decent is English biography, bless its...hangs for ever over the poor English life-writer, and reduces him to the verge of paralysia The English biographer has long felt that if in writing his... | |
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Damocles' sword of Respectability hangs for ever over the poor English Lifewriter (as it does over poor English Life in general), and reduces him to the verge of paralysis. Thus it has been said, " there are no English lives worth reading except those... 
