Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881Longmans, Green, and Company, 1884 |
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... passed lightly over the delicate features in the story . It would have been as easy as it would have been agreeable for me to construct a picture , with every detail strictly accurate , of an almost perfect character . An account so ...
... passed lightly over the delicate features in the story . It would have been as easy as it would have been agreeable for me to construct a picture , with every detail strictly accurate , of an almost perfect character . An account so ...
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... passing , they had not . Why is the past so beautiful ? The ' element of fear is withdrawn from it for one thing . That is all safe , while the present and future are all so dangerous . ' Moonlight of memory ' a poetic phrase of ...
... passing , they had not . Why is the past so beautiful ? The ' element of fear is withdrawn from it for one thing . That is all safe , while the present and future are all so dangerous . ' Moonlight of memory ' a poetic phrase of ...
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... fall desperately in love with or no . — talked about favoured us So Carlyle's first winter in London was passing away . His prospects were blank , and the society in which he moved gave him no particular pleasure , but.
... fall desperately in love with or no . — talked about favoured us So Carlyle's first winter in London was passing away . His prospects were blank , and the society in which he moved gave him no particular pleasure , but.
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... passed heavily , and he lost the count of them , he notes that at no period of his life had he ever felt more disconsolate , beaten down , and powerless than then ; ' as if it were simply im- possible that his weariest and miserablest ...
... passed heavily , and he lost the count of them , he notes that at no period of his life had he ever felt more disconsolate , beaten down , and powerless than then ; ' as if it were simply im- possible that his weariest and miserablest ...
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... passed . A man has but a certain strength ; imperfections cling to him , which if he wait till he have brushed off entirely , he will spin for ever on his axis , advancing nowhither . Know thy thought— believe it - front heaven and ...
... passed . A man has but a certain strength ; imperfections cling to him , which if he wait till he have brushed off entirely , he will spin for ever on his axis , advancing nowhither . Know thy thought— believe it - front heaven and ...
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