In her bright existence she had more sorrows than are common, but also a soft invincibility, a capacity of discernment, and a noble loyalty of heart, which are rare. For forty years she was the true and loving helpmate of her husband, and by act and word... The English Illustrated Magazine - Seite 271904Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| New Church gen. confer - 640 Seiten
...discernment, and a noble loyalty of heart which are rare. For forty years she was the true and loving helpmate of her husband, and by act and word unweariedly forwarded...worthy that he did or attempted. She died at London, 21st April 1866, suddenly snatched away from him, and the light of his life as if gone out." Compare... | |
| Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1885 - 730 Seiten
...a noble loyalty of heart, which are rare. For forty years she was the true and everloving helpmeet of her Husband, and by act and word unweariedly forwarded...worthy that he did or attempted. She died at London, 21st April, 1866, suddenly snatched away from him, and the light of his life as if gone out." There... | |
| 1882 - 844 Seiten
...On his wife's tombstone Carlyle recorded that " for forty years she was the true and loving helpmate of her husband, and by act and word unweariedly forwarded him as no one else could in all of worthy that he did or attempted." Mr. Froude says it was remorse which... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 880 Seiten
...beautiful words of the epitaph he afterwards placed upon her grave, of ' the true and ever-loving helpmate suddenly snatched away from him, and the light of his life as if gone out.' I must be allowed to quote a few extracts from the interesting notes which Jessie has very kindly sent... | |
| 1866 - 848 Seiten
...stamp to stop and 1 l . , AJ " .(''.<-. i 1 1 ° . forty years she was the true and loving helpmate of her husband, and by act and word unweariedly forwarded...worthy that he did or attempted. She died at London, 21st April, 1866, suddenly snatched away from him, and the light of his life as if gone out." The tablet... | |
| 1866 - 840 Seiten
...For forty years she was the true and loving helpmate of her husband, and by act and word unwearicdly forwarded him as none else could in all of worthy that he did or attempted. She died at London, 21st April, 1866, suddenly snatched away from him, and the light of his life as if gone out." The tablet... | |
| William Ballantyne Hodgson - 1869 - 158 Seiten
...and a noble loyalty of heart, which are rare. For forty years she was the true and loving helpmate of her husband, and by act and word unweariedly forwarded...worthy that he did or attempted. She died at London, 21st April, 1866, suddenly snatched away from him, and the light of his life, as if gone out. " What... | |
| Birmingham Speculative Club - 1870 - 320 Seiten
...and a noble loyalty of heart, which are rare. For forty years she was the true and loving help-mate of her husband, and by act and word unweariedly forwarded...could in all of worthy that he did or attempted." These words were written by Mr. Thomas Carlyle on the tomb of his wife at Chelsea. If we could but... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - 244 Seiten
...forwarded him as none else could in all of worthy that he did or attempted. She died at London, 21st April, 1866, suddenly snatched away from him, and the light of his life as if gone out," Later in the same year, weighed down as he was by his great sorrow, Carlyle nevertheless thought it... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1874 - 572 Seiten
...in the epitaph he wrote for her gravestone : " For forty years she was the true and loving helpmate of her husband, and, by act and word, unweariedly...all of worthy that he did or attempted. She died, suddenly snatched away from him, and the light of his life is as if gone out." That a similar happy... | |
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