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" Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light and music and high-swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of life beats tremulous and faint, and bloodshot eyes look out through the darkness, which is around and within,... "
The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine - Page 96
edited by - 1847
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...pick-locks and crowbars, or lurks in Avait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, nnd faint, and bloodshot eyes look out through the darkness, which is around and within, for the light...
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Carlyles' Works: Sartor Resartus. Heroes and hero-worship

Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1884 - 494 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow : comes no hammering from the Rabenstein ? — their gallows...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. Heroes and ...

Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1885 - 490 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow : comes no hammering from the Rabenstein ? — their gallows...
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New Church (The New-Church) magazine, Volume 2

New Church gen. confer - 1883 - 638 pages
...vast void night. . . . Gay mansions with supper rooms, are full of light and music, and high swelling hearts ; but, in the condemned cells, the pulse of...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow. Comes no hammering from the Babewttinf their gallows must even...
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Works, Volume 4

Thomas Carlyle - 1885 - 688 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till " the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, " with supper-rooms, and dancing-rooms, are full of...Cells, the pulse of life beats tremulous and faint, and blood" shot eyes look out through the darkness, which is around and " within, for the light of a stern...
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The Story of Some Famous Books

Frederick Saunders - English literature - 1887 - 232 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...and blood-shot eyes look out through the darkness." Carlyle's knowledge of the German language was such as to place him in advance of any of his contemporaries,...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1888 - 314 pages
...crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen " first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper" rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light and music and...life beats tremulous and faint, and bloodshot eyes " look-out through the darkness, which is around and " within, for the light of a stern last morning....
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sartor resartus lectures on heroes chartism past and present

thomas carlyle - 1888
...picklocks and " crow-bars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their " boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, " are full of...Condemned Cells, the pulse of life beats tremulous and taint, " and bloodshot eyes look-out through the darkness, which is " around and within, for the light...
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From Chaucer to Tennyson: English Literature in Eight Chapters

Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 320 pages
...picklocks and crowbars,or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...Cells, the pulse of life beats tremulous and faint, and blood-sliot eyes look out through the darkness, which is around and within, for the light of a stern...
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Living Thoughts in Words that Burn, from Poet, Sage and Humorist

Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms, and dancing-rooms, are full of...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow : comes no hammering from the Rabenstein? — their gallows...
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