Memoirs of the Life And Writings of Thomas Carlyle With Personal Reminiscences
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781417969913
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: IN the year 1847 Carlyle, with the characteristic kindness and loyalty to friendship which always distinguished him, wielded his powerful pen, and used his utmost interest with the great, to obtain a pension for his old acquaintance and former neighbour, the gifted and amiable Leigh Hunt, who, now in the evening of his life, after bravely bearing the burden and heat of the day, found himself without the comforts and alleviations that usually sweeten its close.