Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies

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George Henry Blore. Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies

Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies

Table of Contents

PREFACE

LIST OF PORTRAITS

INTRODUCTION

THOMAS CARLYLE

SIR ROBERT PEEL

CHARLES JAMES NAPIER

ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER

JOHN LAWRENCE

JOHN BRIGHT

CHARLES DICKENS

ALFRED TENNYSON

CHARLES KINGSLEY

GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS

JOHN COLERIDGE PATTESON

SIR ROBERT D. B. MORIER, G.C.B., P.C

JOSEPH LISTER

WILLIAM MORRIS

JOHN RICHARD GREEN

CECIL RHODES

INDEX

FOOTNOTES:

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George Henry Blore

Published by Good Press, 2019

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THOMAS CARLYLE

North-west of Carlisle (from which town the Carlyle family in all probability first took their name), a little way along the border, the river Annan comes down its green valley from the lowland hills to lose itself in the wide sands of the Solway Firth. At the foot of these hills is the village of Ecclefechan, some eight miles inland. Here in the wide irregular street, down the side of which flows a little beck, stands the grey cottage, built by the stonemason James Carlyle, where he lived with his second wife, Margaret Aitken; and here on December 4, 1795, the eldest of nine children, their son Thomas was born. There is little to redeem the place from insignificance; the houses are mostly mean, the position of the village is tame and commonplace. But if a visitor will mount the hills that lie to the north, turn southward and look over the wide expanse of land and water to the Cumbrian mountains, then, should he be fortunate enough to see the landscape in stormy and unsettled weather, he may realize why the land was so dear to its most famous son that he could return to it from year to year throughout his life and could there at all times soothe his most unquiet moods. Through all his years in London he remained a lowland Scot and was most at home in Annandale. With this district his fame is still bound up, as that of Walter Scott with the Tweed, or that of Wordsworth with the Lakes.

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