Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Issue 25, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 |
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... Present ' " CHAPTER XI . A.D. 1842-3 . ET . 47-48 . Slow progress with Cromwell ' -Condition of England question- Past and Present ' -The Dismal Science - Letter from Lockhart -Effect of Carlyle's writings on his contemporaries - Young ...
... Present ' " CHAPTER XI . A.D. 1842-3 . ET . 47-48 . Slow progress with Cromwell ' -Condition of England question- Past and Present ' -The Dismal Science - Letter from Lockhart -Effect of Carlyle's writings on his contemporaries - Young ...
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... present too doleful , unfriendly . I am too sick at heart , wearied , wasted in body , to complain even to myself . My first friend Edward Irving is dead - I am friendless here or as good as that . My book cannot get on , though I stick ...
... present too doleful , unfriendly . I am too sick at heart , wearied , wasted in body , to complain even to myself . My first friend Edward Irving is dead - I am friendless here or as good as that . My book cannot get on , though I stick ...
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... present and future are all so dangerous . ' Moonlight of memory ' a poetic phrase of Richter's . Also The limbs of my buried ones touched cold on my soul . ' There are yet few days in which I do not meet on the streets some face that ...
... present and future are all so dangerous . ' Moonlight of memory ' a poetic phrase of Richter's . Also The limbs of my buried ones touched cold on my soul . ' There are yet few days in which I do not meet on the streets some face that ...
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... be mistaken for affectation , but it was a natural growth , with this merit among others , Slightly altered when printed in Past and Present . ' CARLYLE'S STYLE . 41 that it is the clearest of 40 CARLYLE'S LIFE IN LONDON .
... be mistaken for affectation , but it was a natural growth , with this merit among others , Slightly altered when printed in Past and Present . ' CARLYLE'S STYLE . 41 that it is the clearest of 40 CARLYLE'S LIFE IN LONDON .
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... present . Singular , too , how near my extreme misery is to peace , almost to some transient glimpses of happiness . It seems to me I shall either before long recover myself into life ( alas ! I have never yet lived ) or end it , which ...
... present . Singular , too , how near my extreme misery is to peace , almost to some transient glimpses of happiness . It seems to me I shall either before long recover myself into life ( alas ! I have never yet lived ) or end it , which ...
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