Another View of Carlyle.
The new volume of Mr Cavlyle's ' Letters ' contains an inimitable scene which reveals Cai'lyle really and truly as he was. A Scotch friend, calling at Chelsea, happened to remark that he and his mother had been reading Lord Beaconstield's last novel, whereupon exclaimed the host, 'Then you and your mother are tools.' The visitor ventured to reply that, at least, the author of the work in question was a great speaker. ' Young man,' replied Carlyle, ' I hope that you will live to get sense, and learn that words are no good at all ; it is deeds, and deeds only.' Even this, however, did not shut up the admirer of ' that melancholy harlequin,' and, after quoting an apposite passage from Sophocles, he presumed to observe, ' You do not agree with one of the wisest of the Greeks, Mr Carlyle ?' to which the sage retorted, ' I see what you are now, a damned impudent whelp of an Edinburgh advocate !' Mrs Carlyle and Miss Jewsbury were present at this delectable dialogue, and Carlyle was dressed in * a flowered dressing-gown,' and bad * a pipe a foot long.' .
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 420, 16 November 1889, Page 6
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187Another View of Carlyle. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 420, 16 November 1889, Page 6
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