A Visit to Carlyle's Annandale (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Visit to Carlyle's Annandale Ruskin asked, but that he was born in the clouds and struck by lightning This hits upon the essential thing, though it does not tell the whole story. I know not whether it is common for the young men of to-day to give their days and nights to Thomas Carlyle, but I am thankful at all events for my youthful enthusiasms in that direction. After the passage of twenty years that name te mains for me one of the most significant in the whole range of English letters. Small wonder that on my first visit to the mother country (in the summer of 1904) I made my plans to spend a few days in Annandale, the home of Carlyle. A week for Glasgow, the Burns country, the Trossachs, Edinburgh, and the land of Sir Walter Scott - then southwards on my Carlyle quest. The sketch here given makes no pretensions. Indeed it is written largely in the words of the letters that I sent home at that time. My friends for whom I have prepared this booklet will perhaps be content not to play the part of critics, but will take the journey along with me to the home of Carlyle, ready to enjoy what they can and to make no complaints at what they cannot, after the wise custom of all good travelers. Rustic Annandale, with its homely honesties, rough vernacularities, safe, ia nocently kind, ruggedly motherlike, cheery, wholesome, like its airy hills and clear-rushing streams. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.