Thomas CarlyleChatto & Windus, 1881 - 223 pages |
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... devouring ) savage also , as is the tiger in his jungle . Some comfort it would have been , could I , like a Faust , have fancied myself tempted and tormented of a Devil ; for a Hell , as I imagine , without Life , though only diabolic ...
... devouring ) savage also , as is the tiger in his jungle . Some comfort it would have been , could I , like a Faust , have fancied myself tempted and tormented of a Devil ; for a Hell , as I imagine , without Life , though only diabolic ...
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... devouring monster , wherein I , palpitating , waited to be devoured . Full of such humour , and perhaps the miserablest man in the whole French Capital or Suburbs , was I , one sultry Dog- day , after much perambulation , toiling along ...
... devouring monster , wherein I , palpitating , waited to be devoured . Full of such humour , and perhaps the miserablest man in the whole French Capital or Suburbs , was I , one sultry Dog- day , after much perambulation , toiling along ...
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... devour him ; if he front it not bravely , it will keep its word . By incessant wise defiances of it , lusty rebuke and buffet of it , behold how loyally it supports him , bears him as its conqueror along . Religion , ' I said , for ...
... devour him ; if he front it not bravely , it will keep its word . By incessant wise defiances of it , lusty rebuke and buffet of it , behold how loyally it supports him , bears him as its conqueror along . Religion , ' I said , for ...
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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