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Carlyle finds the second number of "The Dial" better than the first, and tosses his charitable recognition, as if into an alms-basket, with his usual air of superiority. "But it is all good and very good as a soul; wants only a body, which want means a great deal." And again, "'The Dial, too, it is all spirit like, aeri-form, aurora-borealis like.
Carlyle finds the second number of "The Dial" better than the first, and tosses his charitable recognition, as if into an alms-basket, with his usual air of superiority. "But it is all good and very good as a soul; wants only a body, which want means a great deal." And again, "'The Dial, too, it is all spirit like, aeri-form, aurora-borealis like.
I know not what Ignis fatuus adulterates the press, but it seems much after that fashion, else how could this vermin think to be a twin to a legitimate writer; when those weekly fragments shall pass for history, let the poor man's box be entitled the exchequer, and the alms-basket a magazine.
'O they have lived long in the alms-basket of WORDS, is the criticism on this learning with which this showman, whoever he may he, explains his exhibition of it.
And surely he must be, indeed, of the school of Antony Dull, and never fed with the dainties bred in a book, who does not see what it is that is criticised here; that it is the learning of an unlearned time, of a barbarous time, of a vain, frivolous debased, wretched time, that has been fed long always from "the alms-basket of words."
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