 ... seen and felt, that not only his highest glory, but his first duty, and the true medicine for all his woes, lay here. The second was still less probable ; for his mind was ever among the clearest and firmest. So the milder third gate was opened for...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 336by Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 454 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1828 - 722 pages
...his mind was ever among the clearest and firmest. So the milder third gate was opened for him : and he passed, not softly, yet speedily, into that still country, where the hail- storms and fire-showers do not reach, and the heaviest-laden wayfarer at length lays down his... | |
 | Timothy Flint - 1830 - 696 pages
...his mind was ever among the clearest and flrmest. So the milder third gate was opened for him : and he passed, not softly, yet speedily, into that still country, where the hail-stornu and fire-showers do not reach, and the heaviest-laden wayfarer at length lays down his... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...his mind was ever among the clearest and firmest. So the milder third gate was opened for him : and he passed, not softly, yet speedily, into that still...Contemplating this sad end of Burns, and how he sank unaided bysany real help, uncheered by any wise sympathy, generous minds have sometimes figured to themselves,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...his mind was ever among the clearest and firmest. So the milder third gate was opened for him : and he passed, not softly, yet speedily, into that still...generous minds have sometimes figured to themselves, no Ill •with a reproachful sorrow, that much might have been done for him ; that by counsel, true... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...his mind was ever among the clearest and firmest. 80 the milder third gate was opened for him : and he passed, not softly, yet speedily, into that still...of Burns, and how he sank unaided by any real help, unchecred by any wise sympathy, generous minds have sometimes figured to themselves. 110 Ill with a... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...his mind was ever among the clearest and firmest. So the milder third gate was opened for him : and he passed, not softly, yet speedily, into that still...fireshowers do not reach, and "the heaviest-laden way-fare r at length lays down his load! Contemplating this sad end of Burns, and how he sank unaided... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1853 - 498 pages
...his mind was ever among the clearest and firmest. So the milder third gate was opened for him : and he passed, not softly, yet speedily, into that still...and how he sank unaided by any real help, uncheered hy any wise sympathy, generous minds have sometimes figured to themselves, with a reproachful sorrow,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...his mind was ever among the clearest and firmest. So the milder third gate was opened for him: and oncheered by any wise sympathy, generous minds have sometimes figured to themselves. »uh a reproachful... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 570 pages
...his mind was ever among the clearest and firmest. So the milder third gate was opened for him: and he passed, not softly, yet speedily, into that still...of Burns, and how he sank unaided by any real help, nncheered by any wise sympathy, generous minds have sometimes figured to themselvej. 110 Ill with a... | |
 | 1858 - 674 pages
...ever-vexed Time, cannot thenceforth harm us any more !" Elsewhere Carlyle speaks of Burns as passing, " not softly, yet speedily, into that still country,...heaviest-laden wayfarer at length lays down his load." And elsewhere again, he says of Hartmann Schopper— the Latin translator of Reynard the Fox — that... | |
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