Carlyle combined the lit'ry life
With throwing teacups at his wife,
Remarking, rather testily,
"Oh, stop your dodging, Mrs. C.!"
His wife: Jane Welsh. 
 
 The Carlyles' marriage was notoriously unhappy. Victorian author Samuel Butler quipped: 
 It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another, and so make only two people miserable and not four.
Thomas Carlyle