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Show CARLYLE'S AMIABILITY. Carlyle's strong point was certainly not amiabil-ity. Here are some of his opinions: " S i r Walter Scott, a toothless retailer of old wives' fables; Brougham, an eter nal grinder of cp,, pm[; ace and pre tentious noise, like a man playing on a hurdy- gurdy; Coleridge, talking in a maudlin sleep an infinite deal of noth-ing; Wordsworth, stooping to extract a spiritual catsup from mushrooms which were little better than toadstools; John Wilson, taken to presiding at Noctos and painting haggises in flood; Peel, a plausible fox; John Wilson Croker, an unhanged hound; Lord John Russell, a turnspit of good pedigree; Lord Mel boorne, a monkey; ' these be the gods, O Israel?' Others occupied in under-taking as absurd as to seek to sUCK the moon out of the sky; this wind- bag yelping for liberty to the negro, and that other for the improvement of prisons all sham and imposture to gether a giant lie which may soon go down to hell fire." |