Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Issue 25, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 |
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... admired and applauded , and the biographer , if he had not shared in the praise , would at least have escaped cen- sure . He would have followed in the track marked out for him by a custom which is all but universal . When a popular ...
... admired and applauded , and the biographer , if he had not shared in the praise , would at least have escaped cen- sure . He would have followed in the track marked out for him by a custom which is all but universal . When a popular ...
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... admired the less because he had infirmities like the rest of us . Carlyle's was not the imperious grandeur which has risen superior to weakness and reigns cold and impassive in distant majesty . The fire in his soul burnt red to the end ...
... admired the less because he had infirmities like the rest of us . Carlyle's was not the imperious grandeur which has risen superior to weakness and reigns cold and impassive in distant majesty . The fire in his soul burnt red to the end ...
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... admired his writings will equally admire himself when they see him in his actual likeness . I , for myself , concluded , though not till after long hesitation , that there should be no reserve , and there- fore I have practised none . I ...
... admired his writings will equally admire himself when they see him in his actual likeness . I , for myself , concluded , though not till after long hesitation , that there should be no reserve , and there- fore I have practised none . I ...
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... admiring interest to a number of young men who were themselves afterwards to become famous , to John Mill , to Charles Buller , to Charles Austin , Sir William Molesworth , and the advanced section of the Philosophic Radicals , and he ...
... admiring interest to a number of young men who were themselves afterwards to become famous , to John Mill , to Charles Buller , to Charles Austin , Sir William Molesworth , and the advanced section of the Philosophic Radicals , and he ...
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... admired . So much out of my own pocket . ' The shake of hand he gives you is feckless , egotis- tical . I rather fancy he loves nothing in the world so much as one could wish . When I compare that man with a great man , alas ! he is ...
... admired . So much out of my own pocket . ' The shake of hand he gives you is feckless , egotis- tical . I rather fancy he loves nothing in the world so much as one could wish . When I compare that man with a great man , alas ! he is ...
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