Thomas CarlyleChatto & Windus, 1881 - 223 pages |
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... Death ! Why was the Living banished thither , companionless , conscious ? Why , if there is no Devil ; nay , unless the Devil is your God ? From suicide a certain aftershine of Christianity withheld me . So had it lasted , as in bitter ...
... Death ! Why was the Living banished thither , companionless , conscious ? Why , if there is no Devil ; nay , unless the Devil is your God ? From suicide a certain aftershine of Christianity withheld me . So had it lasted , as in bitter ...
Page 6
... Death ? Well , Death ; and say the pangs of Tophet too , and all that the Devil or Man may , will , or can do against thee ! Hast thou not a heart ; can'st thou not suffer whatsoever it be ; and , as a Child of Freedom , though outcast ...
... Death ? Well , Death ; and say the pangs of Tophet too , and all that the Devil or Man may , will , or can do against thee ! Hast thou not a heart ; can'st thou not suffer whatsoever it be ; and , as a Child of Freedom , though outcast ...
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... death above all that transiently enveloped it , that Spirit which as it came from deeps of experience shall call to every Deep , -will remain to do its work for evermore . Farewell , great and faithful father ! We , thy children , born ...
... death above all that transiently enveloped it , that Spirit which as it came from deeps of experience shall call to every Deep , -will remain to do its work for evermore . Farewell , great and faithful father ! We , thy children , born ...
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amid Athens blue day born boundless brave Burns Carlyle wrote Carlyle's chaos content thee Craigenputtock dark dawning Another blue dear affection Death Devil devouring divine dost Dumfries earth Ecclefechan Ephron the Hitite eternal evermore evil lessons faith field of Ephron Fifty-six years ago fire force forgotten gathered genius GOETHE grave Haddington Cathedral hath been dawning heard heart Heaven heroes heroism hey buried holding the plough human ignorance influence kings knew labours light lived lonely long watch lowly memory moonshine mortal never nobler pangs passed peasant pious Poor moth prophecy pulpit religion Sartor Resartus Schiller Scotch Church seedfield sell thy shams Slip useless smite Socrates sorrow soul SOUTH PLACE spirit stars Sterling's superstition thine things thinker THOMAS CARLYLE thou art thou findest thou wilt toils tomb Tophet tragic pilgrimage truth universe Untruth village road Voltaire Wellington wilt thou let worship