This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...He proved that his optimism was no fruit of imbecility by the soundness and insight of his judgment of Carlyle. He saw that Carlyle's literary genius was but a minor accompaniment of his moral nature, "an Eolian attachment to an enormous trip-hammer." "There is more character than intellect in every sentence." ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...He proved that his optimism was no fruit of imbecility by the soundness and insight of his judgment of Carlyle. He saw that Carlyle's literary genius was but a minor accompaniment of his moral nature, "an Eolian attachment to an enormous trip-hammer." "There is more character than intellect in every sentence." He was struck by Carlyle's affinity to Johnson, but observed that the step which England had made from one to the other was prodigious. "If she can make another step as large, what new ages open!" Emerson's lectures were a great success, and he mixed with the best English intellectual society, hearing, among other things, a demolition of the "Squire Letters" from Macaulay. Carlyle replied as he read his rival's History, "Flow on, thou shining river!" The hit was fair and f penetrant: but he ought not to have overlooked Macaulay's almost unique power of kindling patriotic emotion, and making his reader a better citizen. He was prejudiced alike against the historian and the "scandalous period " of his narrative, forgetting that " in our Father's house are many mansions." He made several interesting visits about this time, especially to Lord and Lady Ashburton, whose intimacy was to bring momentous consequences. He went to Malvern, where Dr. Gully's warm welcome did him more good than his cold water; and to Lancashire, where he fore-gathered with John Bright. The philosopher and the orator should have confined their discourse to George Fox, Milton, and Cromwell. For want of this precaution harmony was not attained: months afterwards Carlyle's thunder still rumbled in the ears of the good people of Rochdale. Bright's stature had not yet risen, as it was to rise, to Carlyle's standard of the heroic. Carlyle accepted Free Trade, but not as a...
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