Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Issue 25, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 |
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Page 21
... hope he will soon . He is one of my chief comforts . To work at the Fête des Piques . ' Jack ' and Alick ' were Carlyle's two brothers , John and Alexander . Alexander , who had been his companion at Craigenputtock , was struggling ...
... hope he will soon . He is one of my chief comforts . To work at the Fête des Piques . ' Jack ' and Alick ' were Carlyle's two brothers , John and Alexander . Alexander , who had been his companion at Craigenputtock , was struggling ...
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... hope of it , except of being done with it , properly beginning to as good as feel that literature has gone mad in this country , and will not yield food to any honest cultivator of it . For example : if this book ever prospers , the ...
... hope of it , except of being done with it , properly beginning to as good as feel that literature has gone mad in this country , and will not yield food to any honest cultivator of it . For example : if this book ever prospers , the ...
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... hope to equal it . Mill , whom I had to comfort and speak peace to , re- mained injudiciously enough till almost midnight ; and my poor dame and I had to sit talking of indifferent matters , and could not till then get our lament fairly ...
... hope to equal it . Mill , whom I had to comfort and speak peace to , re- mained injudiciously enough till almost midnight ; and my poor dame and I had to sit talking of indifferent matters , and could not till then get our lament fairly ...
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... hope now of the promised summer holiday when John Carlyle was to come home from Italy , and the French Revolution ' was to have been finished , and the brothers to have gone to Scotland together and settled their future plans in family ...
... hope now of the promised summer holiday when John Carlyle was to come home from Italy , and the French Revolution ' was to have been finished , and the brothers to have gone to Scotland together and settled their future plans in family ...
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... hope elsewhither . Another effect of Carlyle's enforced period of idle- ness was that he saw more of his friends , and of one especially , whose interest in himself had first amused and then attracted him . John Sterling , young , eager ...
... hope elsewhither . Another effect of Carlyle's enforced period of idle- ness was that he saw more of his friends , and of one especially , whose interest in himself had first amused and then attracted him . John Sterling , young , eager ...
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