Carlyle
Subtitle: Essay on Burns
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780548059098
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Literary Criticism : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: IN the modern arrangements of society, it is no uncommon thing that a man o 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 recognize.