Carlyle's Essay on Burns
Contributors: Charles L. Hanson (Editor)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: May 7, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781432600747
Subjects: History / Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; History; History - General History; History: World
First sentence: IN the modern arrangements of society, it is no uncommon thing that a man of genius must, like Butler, 'ask for bread and receive a stone;' for, in spite of our grand maxim of supply and demand, it is by no means the highest excellence that men are most forward to recognise.