Opis: The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, Vol. 1 - Carlyle Thomas

Excerpt from The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, Vol. 1: Edited by Alexander Carlyle

Carlyle's injunction against the publication of the Letters which passed between himself and Miss Welsh before their marriage having been already violated, it has seemed to me to be no longer prohibitive: the holy of holies having been sacrilegiously forced, desecrated, and polluted, and its sacred relics defaced, besmirched, and held up to ridicule, any further intrusion therein for the purpose of cleansing and admitting the purifying air and light of heaven can now be attended, in the long run, by nothing but good results. If entrance into the sacred precincts, with this object, be an act of sacrilege, it is at worst a very venial one! Had there been no previous intrusion no infraction of Carlyle's interdict I need hardly say that nothing in the world or beneath it would have induced me to intrude therein. But what would have been rank sacrilege at one time has now, in the altered circumstances, become a pious duty. I offer no apology, therefore, for publishing these Letters, for in my judgment none is needed. I should rather be inclined to apologise for not having performed so obvious a duty long ere now.

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Szczegóły: The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, Vol. 1 - Carlyle Thomas

Nazwa: The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, Vol. 1 Edited by Alexander Carlyle (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Carlyle Thomas
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330647325
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 472
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

Recenzje: The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, Vol. 1 - Carlyle Thomas