Here Carlyle had come, here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland could see her black silk skirts, her velvet trains, sweeping compressed between the Fathers of the Church, and heard her firm foot ring on metal among the German poets.
Quotes about carlyle (13 Quotes)
At bottom he Carlyle was probably fond of them the Americans, but he was always able to conceal it.
I give Carlyle a lot of credit. They played well. We did a pretty good job defensively, but we weren't real sharp shooting the ball.
I was a huge fan of Terri McIntyre - Classy Bitch the BBC3BBC Scotland sitcom. The first series of 15 minute episodes was particular genius. The BBC seemed to hate it though and despite a cult following never repeated it. Are there any plans for it to come out on DVD, or go onto UKGOLD And any ideas what Simon Carlyle is up to these days
Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools.
It is long since Mr. Carlyle expressed his opinion that if any poet or other literary creature could really be 'killed off by one critique' or many, the sooner he was so despatched the better a sentiment in which I for one humbly but heartily concur.
Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels When the tired player shuffles off the buskin A page of Hood may do a fellow good After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.
Carlyle was right when he said that this life is only a 'gleam of light between two eternities.' And still some folks take it so hecticly and so seriously. What's all the hurry for, anyway.
They are a little different from Carlyle. They are a little bigger and they spread the floor more with their big guys. We'll make some adjustments, but at this time of year, you just do what you do.
The offer of Go Go Tales, Carlyle says, was a bit of a marker ... You've always got to look for the interesting stuff and try to find a world that you haven't visited before. That's the only chance.
This is a great win for our program. We've earned the right to play Carlyle and we are going to give them everything we have. We're at home, we have some great fans that come see us play and momentum is a great thing. And we have it right now.
What happened was that a lot of American actors wanted to work with Robert Carlyle. Marisa Tomei really wanted to work with Robert.
It will not take a modern Victorian specialist long to admit that liberal cultural heroes like John Stuart Mill, Arnold, Carlyle, Newman, Macaulay, Ruskin, George Eliot, and even Dickens had definite views on race and imperialism, which are quite easily to be found at work in their writing.