 For the first time for many months it seems possible to send you a few words ; merely, however, for Remembrance and Farewell. On higher matters there is nothing to say. I tread the common road into the great darkness, without any thought of fear, and...  Nineteenth Century and After - Page 4141881Full view - About this book
 | 1851 - 592 pages
...the following passage from the last letter received by Thomas Carlyle from the dying Sterling : — "I tread the common road into the great darkness,...and with very much of hope. Certainty indeed I have поне. With regard to you and me I cannot begin to write ; having nothing for it but to keep shut... | |
 | Literature - 1852 - 638 pages
...anguish. Yet the close was truly tragical. How affecting the words of his last letter to his biographer, " I tread the common road "into the great darkness without...very much of hope ! Certainty, indeed, I have none." He adds, in reference to Carlyle, " Towards me it is still more true than towards England, that no... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 426 pages
...first time for many months, it scems possible to send you a few words; merely, however, for remembranee and farewell. On higher matters there is nothing to...the common road into the great darkness, without any (1) Published b,- Ollivier, Pall Mall. thought of fear and with very much of hope. Certainty, indced,... | |
 | 430 pages
...Remembrance and Farewell," wherein he says : — " On higher matters there is nothing to say. I tread tho common road into the great darkness, without any thought...Certainty, indeed, I have none. With regard to You and Mo 1 cannot begin 76 77 to write ; having nothing for it but to keep shut the lid of those secrets... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, English - 1851 - 360 pages
...Thomas Carlyle, Usq., Chelsea, London. ' Hillside, Ventnor, August 10th, 1844. 'MY DEAR CARLYLE, — For the first time for many months it seems possible...Me I cannot begin to write ; having nothing for it but to keep shut the lid of those secrets with all the iron weights that are in my power. Towards me... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...before his death, he wrote a last letter to Carlyle, of " Remembrance and Farewell," wherein he says : " On higher matters there is nothing to say. I tread...Me I cannot begin to write ; having nothing for it but to keep shut the lid of those secrets with all the iron weights that are in my power. Towards me... | |
 | 1851 - 854 pages
...anguish. Yet the close was truly tragical. How affecting the words of his last letter to his biographer, ' I tread the common road into the great darkness without...very much of hope. Certainty, indeed, I have none.' He adds, in reference to Carlyle, ' Towards me it is still more true than towards England, that no... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1851 - 880 pages
...truly tragical. How affecting tht words of his last letter to his biographer, ' I tread the comnu-u road into the great darkness without any thought of...very much of hope. Certainty, indeed, I have none.* He adds, in reference to Carlyle, ' Towards me it is still mor' true than towards England, that no... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1852 - 620 pages
...Thomas Carlyle, Esq., Chelsea, London. 'Hillside, Ventnor, Aug. 10th, 1844. ' MY DEAR CARLYLE, — For the first time for many months it seems possible...me I cannot begin to write ; having nothing for it but to keep shut the lid of those secrets with all the iron weights that are in my power. Towards me... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 396 pages
...Thomas Carlyle, Esq., Chelsea, London. ' Hillaide, Ventnor, August 10th, 1844. ' MY DEAR CARLYLE, — For the first time for many ' months it seems possible...any ' thought of fear, and with very much of hope. Cer' tainty indeed I have none. With regard to You and ' Me I cannot begin to write ; having nothing... | |
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