 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1858 - 542 pages
...his library. Even marriage produced no change in these habits ; he rose to enter the chamber where he lived alone with his books, and at night his lamp was ever lit within the same walls. Nothing, indeed, was more remarkable than the isolation of this prolonged existence; and it could only... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1858 - 808 pages
...marriage produced no спапце in these habits : he rose to enter the chamber where he lived alone wi h his books, and at night his lamp was ever lit within the same walls." In his old age his appearance was mild and venerable ; he had tben become rather corpulent. D1SS. fNoiiroLK.]... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1858 - 810 pages
...produced no change in these habits : he rose to enter the chamber where he lived alone wiih his bookstand at night his lamp was ever lit within the same walls." In his old age his appearance was mild and venerable ; he had then become rather corpulent DISS. [NOKFOLK.]... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 544 pages
...his library. Even marriage produced no change in these habits; he rose to enter the chamber where he lived alone with his books, and at night his lamp was ever lit within the same walls. Nothing, indeed, was more remarkable than the isolation of this prolonged existence ; and it could... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...nis library. Even marriage produced no change in these habits ; ha rose to enter the chamber where he lived alone with his books, and at night his lamp was ever lit within the same walls. Nothing, indeed, was more remarkable than the isolation of this prolonged existence ; and it could... | |
 | John Timbs - 1863 - 280 pages
...his library. Even marriage produced no change in these habits : he rose to enter the chamber where he lived alone with his books, and at night his lamp was ever lit within the same walls." His father destined him for business ; but this he opposed so strongly as to compose a long poem against... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1865 - 536 pages
...his library. Even marriage produced no change in these habits ; he rose to enter the chamber where he lived alone with his books, and at night his lamp was ever lit within the same walls. Nothing, indeed, was more remarkable than the isolation of this prolonged existence ; and it could... | |
 | American literature - 1877 - 1236 pages
...his library. Even marriage produced no change in these habits; he rose to enter the chamber where he lived alone with his books, and at night his lamp was ever tit within the same walls. In London bis only amusement was to ramble among booksellers; in the country... | |
 | John McGilchrist - Statesmen - 1868 - 140 pages
...his library. Even marriage produced no change in these habits ; he rose to enter the chamber where he lived alone with his books, and at night his lamp was ever lit within the same walls." We refer the curious to what appears to have been his first printed contribution to literature. It... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Death in literature - 1873 - 490 pages
...continuity " in his bookish life. When he got up in the morning, it was to enter the chamber where he lived alone with his books, and " at night his lamp was ever lit within the same walls." Whether in town or in the country, it was practically all the same. In London his only amusement, we... | |
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Essay on the Literary Character," Vol. II. chap. xxv. He was himself a complete literary character, a man who really passed his life in his library. Even marriage produced no change in these habits ; he rose to enter the chamber where he lived alone with... 
