PHILADELPHIA: H. C. CAREY & I. LEA--CHESNUT-STREET.
And through the trumpet of a child of Rome Rang the pure music of the flutes of Greece. SWINBURNE
LONDON SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET. 1836.
Thankfully I take my share of love and kindness which this generous and gentle and charitable soul has contributed to the world. I take and enjoy my share and say a benediction for the meal. THACKERAY
LONDON CHAPMAN AND HALL 186 STRAND MDCCCXXXVII.
Carlyle alone with his wide humanity has, since Coleridge, kept to us the promises of England. His provokes rather than informs. He blows down narrow walls, and struggles, in a lurid light, like the Jótuns, to throw the old woman Time; in his work there is too much of the anvil and the forge, not enough hay-making under the sun. He makes us act rather than think; he does not say, know thyself, which is impossible, but know thy work. He has no pillars of Hercules, no clear goal, but an endless Atlantis horizon. He exaggerates. Yes: but he makes the hour great, the future bright, the reverence and admiration strong: while mere precise fact is a coil of lead. THOREAU
=Reprinted for Friends from Fraser's Magazine.=
_Mein Vermächtniss, wie herrlich weit und breit!_ _Die Zeit ist mein Vermächtniss, mein Acker ist die Zeit._
It was good to meet him in the wood-paths with that pure intellectual gleam diffused about his presence, like the garment of a shining one; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man as if expecting to receive more than he could impart. HAWTHORNE
"Nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know." PLOTINUS.
BOSTON: JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY. M DCCC XXXVI.
The result of all his labors of research, thought and composition was a history possessing the unity, variety and interest of a magnificent poem. WHIPPLE
BY WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE; OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF HISTORY AT MADRID, ETC.
"Congestæ cumulantur opes, orbisque rapinas Accipit." CLAUDIAN, In Ruf., lib. i., v. 194.
"So color de religion Van a buscar plata y oro Del encubierto tesoro." LOPE DE VEGA, El Nuevo Mundo, Jorn. 1.