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Readings from Carlyle
Readings from Carlyle
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kneels over her pallid dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now moisten.All these heaped and huddled together, with nothing but a little carpentry and masonry between them ;crammed in, like salted fish in their barrel; or weltering, shall I say, like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed vipers, each struggling to get its head above the others: such work goes on under that smoke-counterpane !But I, mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone with the Stars." We looked in his face to see whether, in the utterance of such extraordinary Night-thoughts, no feeling might be traced there; but with the light we had, which indeed was only a single tallow-light, and far enough from the window, nothing save that old calmness and fixedness was visible. II. UNIVERSITY DAYS OF CARLYLE. " Adiecerc bonae paulo plus artis Athenae, Scilicet ut possom eurvo dignoscere rectum, Atque inter silvas Academi quacrere verum." Hor. Epp. ii. 2. 43. [Carlyle here describes the University of Edinburgh as it was in his own young days. From the account here given some deduction-may be made on the ground of the writer's youth, while his later views on the true functions of a University will be found in his Rectorial Address " to read, on my own strength, fluently in almost all cultivated languages, on almost all subjects and sciences." The beginnings of intellectual self-consciousness, religious struggles and doubts, are powerfully depicted. The general reader, who may be a stranger to the ways of the Scottish Universities, will find some light on this point in Dr. George Mac Donald's well-known novel, Alec Forbex of Honyleii.] " The University where I was educated still stands vivid enough in my remembrance, and I know its name well; which name, however, I, from tenderness to existing int...
This is an OCR edition with typos.
Excerpt from book:
kneels over her pallid dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now moisten.All these heaped and huddled together, with nothing but a little carpentry and masonry between them ;crammed in, like salted fish in their barrel; or weltering, shall I say, like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed vipers, each struggling to get its head above the others: such work goes on under that smoke-counterpane !But I, mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone with the Stars." We looked in his face to see whether, in the utterance of such extraordinary Night-thoughts, no feeling might be traced there; but with the light we had, which indeed was only a single tallow-light, and far enough from the window, nothing save that old calmness and fixedness was visible. II. UNIVERSITY DAYS OF CARLYLE. " Adiecerc bonae paulo plus artis Athenae, Scilicet ut possom eurvo dignoscere rectum, Atque inter silvas Academi quacrere verum." Hor. Epp. ii. 2. 43. [Carlyle here describes the University of Edinburgh as it was in his own young days. From the account here given some deduction-may be made on the ground of the writer's youth, while his later views on the true functions of a University will be found in his Rectorial Address " to read, on my own strength, fluently in almost all cultivated languages, on almost all subjects and sciences." The beginnings of intellectual self-consciousness, religious struggles and doubts, are powerfully depicted. The general reader, who may be a stranger to the ways of the Scottish Universities, will find some light on this point in Dr. George Mac Donald's well-known novel, Alec Forbex of Honyleii.] " The University where I was educated still stands vivid enough in my remembrance, and I know its name well; which name, however, I, from tenderness to existing int...