Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Issue 25, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 |
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Page 22
... perhaps six months - then a total cessation . Though I my- self were able to write articles for ever , that is nothing . They are off after any new thing , ' and you stand wondering alone on the beach . As to ' fame ' again , and ...
... perhaps six months - then a total cessation . Though I my- self were able to write articles for ever , that is nothing . They are off after any new thing , ' and you stand wondering alone on the beach . As to ' fame ' again , and ...
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... perhaps a finger of Provi- dence in it . . . . The secret of the whole matter is froth , and grounds itself in bubbles and unreality . The inference gems to be ' Walk out of this ; ' if even into the knapping of stones , which is a ...
... perhaps a finger of Provi- dence in it . . . . The secret of the whole matter is froth , and grounds itself in bubbles and unreality . The inference gems to be ' Walk out of this ; ' if even into the knapping of stones , which is a ...
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... perhaps more agreeable to him than he knew . His money would hold out till the book was done at the rate at which it was progressing . The first volume was finished . On the whole he was not dissatisfied with it . It was the best that ...
... perhaps more agreeable to him than he knew . His money would hold out till the book was done at the rate at which it was progressing . The first volume was finished . On the whole he was not dissatisfied with it . It was the best that ...
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... perhaps worse ; for I had not only forgotten all the structure of it , but the spirit it was written in was past . Only the general impression seemed to remain , and the recollection that I was on the whole satisfied with that , and ...
... perhaps worse ; for I had not only forgotten all the structure of it , but the spirit it was written in was past . Only the general impression seemed to remain , and the recollection that I was on the whole satisfied with that , and ...
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... perhaps is sadder ( of the glad kind ) than the unbounded laudation of such a man , sad proof of the rarity of such . I fancy , however , he has fallen into the garrulity of age , and is not what he was ; also that his environment and ...
... perhaps is sadder ( of the glad kind ) than the unbounded laudation of such a man , sad proof of the rarity of such . I fancy , however , he has fallen into the garrulity of age , and is not what he was ; also that his environment and ...
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