For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man : also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. The Atlantic Monthly - Page 61904Full view - About this book
| Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1839 - 466 pages
...no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man: also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but...is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. It is a plan one would prefer, did it otherwise suit; which it does not, in these days. Seven volumes... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 464 pages
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| Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1860 - 534 pages
...the world but is at bottom a biogmphy, the life of a man: also, it may be said, there is no !i• • of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its •"". rhymed or uurhymed. It is a plan one would prefer, &1 it otherwise suit; which it does not,... | |
| Michigan - 1881 - 744 pages
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| Clarke School for the Deaf - Children, Deaf - 1881 - 752 pages
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| Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...Darkness, the Light resting on the Darkness, and balancing it. t. CABX.YLE — Essays. Characteristics. e le-xves when laid In their noonday dreams. From...my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet b '. i ' >. : .1. -iii . — Essays. Memoirs of the Life'of Scott. How many lives we live in one, And... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 88 pages
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| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...other feeling than regret, and hope, and brotherly commiseration. Voltaire. Foreign Revieir, 1820. There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but...is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. Sir Waiter Scott. London anil tt'eslminttcr Review, 1838. Silence is deep as Eternity ; speech is shallow... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1884 - 494 pages
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| Education - 1893 - 376 pages
...Cicero. 3. Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. — Hone Christian Andersen. 4. There is no life of a man faithfully recorded, but is a heroic of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. 5 God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces... | |
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