...now, days, weeks, and months, but seem The recollection of a dream. — SCOTT'S Marmion, Canto IV. There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort. — CARLYLE'S Essays. The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day; Now spurs the lated traveler...

...now, days, weeks, and months, but seem The recollection of a dream. — SCOTT'S Marmion, Canto IV. There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort — GARLYLE'S EK The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day; Xow spurs the latcd traveler apace,...

...point of fact, the only measure whereby to gauge even his works. " For," as he beautifully says, " there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of a sort, rhymed or unrhymed." But if we take this noble principle of criticism as our test, what a gigantic...

...lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time." — Longfellow. 2. " There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but...is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed." — Carlyle. 3. As is the life, so is the death. Death is the completion and crown of life. 4. True...

...these puns, rather than their ingenuity, that gives them their peculiar flavor." (I., p. xliii.) " There is no life of a man faithfully recorded but is a heroic poem of its sort, rimed or unrimed," said Carlyle, writing of Walter Scott after the gallant fight was over. Hood's life,...

...no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man ; and there is no lite nage of your brain ; / This bodiless creation ecstasy / Is very cunning in. ; i •< Cartyle. There is no jesting with edge tools. Pr. 10 There is no joy without alloy. /V. There is no...

...Tht Psalms. There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; and there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed . — Carlyle. INTRODUCTORY. moments. THIS volume has not been issued for the purpose of merely narrating...

...'"PHERE is no heroic poem in the world but is 1 at the bottom, the life of a man ; also it may be said, there is no life of a man faithfully recorded, but...is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed." This familiar and oftquoted saying of Walter Scott has been illustrated in the lives of those whose...

...no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man ; also, it. may be said, ded and new bloomes did beare, In which a thousand birds had built their bow res That sweetly sung A. CABLYLE— Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review. 1838. In the hexameter rises the fountain's...

...these puns, rather than their ingenuity, that gives them their peculiar flavor." (I., p. xliii.) " There is no life of a man faithfully recorded but is a heroic poem of its sort, rimed or unrimed," said Carlyle, writing of Walter Scott after the gallant fight was over. Hood's life,...