Thomas CarlyleChatto & Windus, 1881 - 223 pages |
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... Earth beneath would hurt me ; as if the Heavens and the Earth were but boundless jaws of a devouring monster , wherein I , palpitating , waited to be devoured . Full of such humour , and perhaps the miserablest man in the whole French ...
... Earth beneath would hurt me ; as if the Heavens and the Earth were but boundless jaws of a devouring monster , wherein I , palpitating , waited to be devoured . Full of such humour , and perhaps the miserablest man in the whole French ...
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... earth ; and when , as that hour came , he confessed to himself that he had no belief in what he was expected to preach ; that he could never , with any honesty of mind , enter the pulpit . This , then , was the blighting end of all the ...
... earth ; and when , as that hour came , he confessed to himself that he had no belief in what he was expected to preach ; that he could never , with any honesty of mind , enter the pulpit . This , then , was the blighting end of all the ...
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... earth explore , - Thy frame , so late with rapture swelling , Is swept from earth for evermore ! 1 " Poor moth ! thy fate my own resembles : Me , too , a restless asking mind , Hath sent on far and weary rambles To seek the good I ne'er ...
... earth explore , - Thy frame , so late with rapture swelling , Is swept from earth for evermore ! 1 " Poor moth ! thy fate my own resembles : Me , too , a restless asking mind , Hath sent on far and weary rambles To seek the good I ne'er ...
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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