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" The Poet who could merely sit on a chair, and compose stanzas, would never make a stanza worth much. He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too. I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator,... "
Consuming Angels: Advertising and Victorian Women - Page 73
by Lori Anne Loeb - 1994 - 240 pages
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Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too. I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator,...or the other degree, he could have been, he is all these. So too I cannot understand how a Mirabeau, with that great glowing heart, with the fire that...
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 pages
...He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too. I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator,...or the other degree, he could have been, he is all these. So too I cannot understand how a Mirabeau, with that great glowing heart, with the fire that...
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures

Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 pages
...He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too. I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator,...or the other degree, he could have been, he is all these. So too I cannot understand how a Mirabeau, with that great glowing heart, with the fire that...
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Sartor Resartus (1831): Lectures on Heroes (1840)

Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pages
...He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too. I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator,...or the other degree, he could have been, he is all these. So too I cannot understand how a Mirabeau, with that great glowing heart, with the fire that...
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1861 - 234 pages
...Heroic warrior too. I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator. Philosoph< r ; — in one or the other degree, he could have been, he is all these. So too I cannot understand how a Mirabeau, with that great glowing heart, with the fire that...
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Heroes and Hero-worship

Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 328 pages
...He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Hexoiijvarrior too.^I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator,...or the other degree, he could have been, he is all these. So too I cannot understand how a Mirabeau, with that great glowing heart, with the fire that...
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The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle: Sartor resartus (1831). Lectures on ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - 408 pages
...He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless lie himself were at least a Heroic warrior too. I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator,...or the other degree, he could have been, he is all these. So too I cannot understand how a Mirabeau, with that great glowing heart, with the fire that...
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Carlyles' Works: Sartor Resartus. Heroes and hero-worship

Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 494 pages
...He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too. I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator,...or the other degree, he could have been, he is all these. So too I cannot understand how a Mirabeau, with that great glowing heart, with the fire that...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. Heroes and ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1885 - 490 pages
...He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too. I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator,...or the other degree, he could have been, he is all these. So too I cannot understand how a Mirabeau, with that great glowing heart, with the fire that...
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Carlyle and the Open Secret of His Life

Henry Larkin - 1886 - 408 pages
...He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too. I fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator,...or the other degree, he could have been, he is all these." In one or the other degree, undoubtedly ; but alas, in the practical activities of life, the...
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