Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Issue 25, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 |
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... weeks ago ; I , after a day of fruitless toil , reading and re - reading about that Versailles 6th of October still . It is long since I have written anything here . The future looks too black round me , the present too doleful ...
... weeks ago ; I , after a day of fruitless toil , reading and re - reading about that Versailles 6th of October still . It is long since I have written anything here . The future looks too black round me , the present too doleful ...
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... week ago . Robespierre was there , an acrid , sandy , barren character , dissonant - speaking , dogmatic , trivial , with a singular exas- peration ; restlessness as of diseased vanity written over his face when you come near it . I do ...
... week ago . Robespierre was there , an acrid , sandy , barren character , dissonant - speaking , dogmatic , trivial , with a singular exas- peration ; restlessness as of diseased vanity written over his face when you come near it . I do ...
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... weeks ago , ' I am resolved to make a little fun this Christmas , for our Christmases for a long while back have been so doleful . ' ' I shall be particularly delighted , ' said he , ' if you can realise any fun . ' Well , the next ...
... weeks ago , ' I am resolved to make a little fun this Christmas , for our Christmases for a long while back have been so doleful . ' ' I shall be particularly delighted , ' said he , ' if you can realise any fun . ' Well , the next ...
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... to be executed properly , and not an out- cast orphan for whom no one cared . For Mill's sake the misadventure was not spoken of in London . WORDSWORTH . 31 Carlyle had been idle for a week 30 CARLYLE'S LIFE IN LONDON .
... to be executed properly , and not an out- cast orphan for whom no one cared . For Mill's sake the misadventure was not spoken of in London . WORDSWORTH . 31 Carlyle had been idle for a week 30 CARLYLE'S LIFE IN LONDON .
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... week or two till he could muster strength to set to work again , and had gone into society as much as he could to distract himself . He was a frequent guest at Henry Taylor's , a good man , ' he said , ' whose laugh reminds me of poor ...
... week or two till he could muster strength to set to work again , and had gone into society as much as he could to distract himself . He was a frequent guest at Henry Taylor's , a good man , ' he said , ' whose laugh reminds me of poor ...
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