On Heroes Hero Worship And The Heroic In History Classic Reprint

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781397275073
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Carlyle on Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Carlyle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Carlyle on Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Number 5, Cheyne Row, Chelsea, was a fit home for a man of letters like Carlyle. In a ruined house, a stone's throw away, Smollett, another exiled Scottish author with a temper, wrote Count Fat/tom. Even nearer was the place where More had entertained Erasmus, when he came to England to study Greek. The very coffee-house in which Mr. Bickerstaff saw Pontius Pilate's Wife's Chambermaid's Sister's Hat, and entertained doubts thereon, was still flour ishing. In Chelsea once lived Bolingbroke, the friend of Pope and teacher of Voltaire; and earlier still, the Count de Grammont. Not far away, at 4 Upper Cheyne Row, lived Leigh Hunt, the lampooner of the Regent, - he spent two years in prison for calling a prince a corpulent Adonis of fifty l - the peculiar friend of Byron, the original of Harold Skimpole, the enviable hero of jenny Kissed Me. The win dows afforded glimpses of the Thames, Turner's own river, of Westminster Abbey, even of the ball and cross above Wren's monument, and, at nights, far away in the west, of the lights of Vauxhall. Here, friends, neither too many nor too few, Mill, Hunt, Sterling, Taylor. Allan Cunningham, gathered round the man and woman of genius they never wanted friends; and the letters of that time show that it was a time of peace. As soon as he was settled in his new home, Carlyle set to work, with good heart, upon his first great book, He French Revolution, itself, as he says, a kind of French Revolution, labored over it late and early, lost the first book by the neg ligence of Mrs. Taylor's maid, according to the famous story, rewrote it, and then, at the end of two years' work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.