The Carlyle EncyclopediaMark Cumming Written by more than fifty international researchers in Victorian studies, The Carlyle Encyclopedia is the new standard, single-volume reference work on Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. It offers concise but detailed accounts of central issues related to the Carlyles' lives and writings, and provides bibliographic citations that direct the reader's attention to a wide range of additional sources. It presents the lives and literary achievements of two remarkable individuals in the context of the rich and challenging Victorian age. The Carlyle Encyclopedia will interest a variety of readers who concern themselves with literature, social history, the history of ideas, Victorian culture, and Scottish studies. Mark Cumming teaches nineteenth-century literature at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. |
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... seems to have dissipated in the face of Allingham's warmth : " When we parted he said , ' You have brought me along in a most beautiful manner to- day - many thanks ! " ( 273 ) . The depth of Allingham's own feelings is reflected in his ...
... seems to have dissipated in the face of Allingham's warmth : " When we parted he said , ' You have brought me along in a most beautiful manner to- day - many thanks ! " ( 273 ) . The depth of Allingham's own feelings is reflected in his ...
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... seems to have done . " Jane con- cluded that Lady Harriet was " a very loveable spoilt Child of Fortune - that a little whipping , judiciously administered would have made into a first rate woman " ( 16 : 183-84 ) . Two years later Jane ...
... seems to have done . " Jane con- cluded that Lady Harriet was " a very loveable spoilt Child of Fortune - that a little whipping , judiciously administered would have made into a first rate woman " ( 16 : 183-84 ) . Two years later Jane ...
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... seems to have discerned pretty clearly for herself that our intercourse is to be carried on under different con- ditions henceforth , or probably to cease altogether before long .... ( 20 : 248 ) Visits to Lady Harriet did not " cease ...
... seems to have discerned pretty clearly for herself that our intercourse is to be carried on under different con- ditions henceforth , or probably to cease altogether before long .... ( 20 : 248 ) Visits to Lady Harriet did not " cease ...
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... seems to me a kind of emblem of the poor hidebound Benthamee Radicalism it set about representing . That too lies [ dying ] ; cast out miserably into the ditch , never in all Eternity to live more . Black , Atheistic , unsympathizing ...
... seems to me a kind of emblem of the poor hidebound Benthamee Radicalism it set about representing . That too lies [ dying ] ; cast out miserably into the ditch , never in all Eternity to live more . Black , Atheistic , unsympathizing ...
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... seems to me comparatively worthy of praise . It is a determinate being what all the world , in a cowardly half - and - half man- ner , was tending to be . Let us have the crisis ; we shall either have death or the cure . I call this ...
... seems to me comparatively worthy of praise . It is a determinate being what all the world , in a cowardly half - and - half man- ner , was tending to be . Let us have the crisis ; we shall either have death or the cure . I call this ...
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