 Carlyle's discourses were however so great that he might probably have gone on year after year till this time, with improving success, and perhaps ease: but the struggle was too severe. From the time that his course was announced till it was finished,...  Harriet Martineau's Autobiography - Page 383by Harriet Martineau - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...fingers which nervously picked at the desk before him, he could not for a moment be supposed to enjoy his erned, that acts of lenity are not means of conciliation....have done with the third period of your policy — (1832-34), with improving success, and perhaps ease ; but the struggle was too severe. From the time... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...fingers which nervously picked at the desk before him, he could not for a moment be supposed to enjoy his bert Cochrane (1832-34), with improving success, and perhaps ease ; but the struggle was too severe. From the time... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...fingers which nervously picked at the desk before him, he could not for a moment bs supposed to enjoy his own effort; and the lecturer's own enjoyment is a prime element of success. The merita of Carlyle's discourses were, however, so great that he might probably have gone on year after... | |
 | H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1881 - 830 pages
...Professor Edward Dowden, show, as Harriet Martineau has said, that, " the merits of his discourses were so great, that he might probably have gone on year...and perhaps ease, but the struggle was too severe, ie, the struggle with nervous excitement and ill-health." The Times observes, with regard to the first... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - Authors, English - 1881 - 406 pages
...fingers which nervously picked at the desk before him, he could not for a moment be supposed to enjoy his own effort ; and the lecturer's own enjoyment is a...discourses were, however, so great that he might probably bave gone on year after year till this time, with improving success, and perhaps ease : but the struggle... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - Authors, Scottish - 1881 - 414 pages
...fingers which nervously picked at the desk before him, he could not for a moment be supposed to enjoy his own effort; and the lecturer's own enjoyment is a...Carlyle's discourses were, however, so great that i. 16 \ he might probably have gone on year after year till this time, with improving success, and... | |
 | Edward Dowden - Criticism - 1888 - 548 pages
...assured by a keen, if friendly, critic, Harriet Martinean, that " the merits of his discourses were so great that he might probably have gone on year...and perhaps ease, but the struggle was too severe," ie, the struggle with nervous excitement and ill-health. In a notice of the first lecture ever delivered... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Biography & Autobiography - 1892 - 382 pages
...fingers which nervously picked at the desk before him, he could not for a moment be supposed to enjoy his own effort ; and the lecturer's own enjoyment is a prime element of success." She met? Coleridge, who told her he waited for her books from month to month. " He is not sixty and... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1903 - 324 pages
...Martineau, who was present at many of the lectures, assures us that the merits of his discourses were so great that he might probably have gone on year after year with improving success and perhaps ease ; but the struggle with nervous excitement anci ill-health... | |
 | 1881 - 1092 pages
...assured by a keen, if friendly, critic, Harriet Martineau, that 'the merits of his discourses were so great that he might probably have gone on year...and perhaps ease, but the struggle was too severe,' ie the struggle with nervous excitement and ill-health. In a friendly notice of the first lecture ever... | |
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