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 | Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1839 - 466 pages
...with all degrees of perfection from that of the ' Odyssey ' down to ' Thomas Ellwood ' or lower. 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,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 464 pages
...with all degrees of perfection from that of the ' Odyssey ' down to ' Thomas Ellwood ' or lower. 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1860 - 534 pages
...with all degrees of perfection, from that •f ilie Odyssey down to Thonnis Ellwoud or lower. For tare is no heroic poem in 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,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...penn'd Their inspiration, and perchance the best. 6. BYBON — Prophecy of Dante. Canto IV. Line 1. There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. e. CABLYLE— Unsays. Memoirs of the Life of Scott. Be could songes make, and wel endite. d. CHAUCEB... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 88 pages
...fulfilled with all degrees of perfection, from that of the Odyssey down to Thomas Ellwood or lower. 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1884 - 494 pages
...fulfilled with all degrees of perfection, from that of the Odyssey down to Thomas Ellwood or lower. 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... | |
 | North American review - 1884 - 662 pages
...about the word." In this connection, Mr. Whitman quotes a saying of Carlyle's, that " there is no grand poem in the world but is at bottom a biography — the life of a man." It is noticeable here that Carlyle does not say an autobiography. Mr. Whitman is mistaken. The " ego... | |
 | Walt Whitman - Democracy - 1888 - 212 pages
...of verse, heroism, or religion — abstractions will do neither. (Carlyle said, 'There is no grand poem in the world but is at bottom a biography — the life of a man.') That I have not been accepted during my own timethat the largely prevailing range of criticism on my... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...Poetry. Poetry is music. 4154 Richard E. Burton : Stovenliness in Verse-Making. (The Writer, June, 1888.) There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. 4155 Carh1le : Essays. Memoirs of t he Life of Scott. (London and Westminster Review, Nos. xii. and... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...Richard E. Burton : Slovenliness in Verse-Making. (The Writer, June, 1888.) There is no heroic poem iu the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. 4155 (Jarlyle : Exsai/s. Memoirs of the Life of Scott. (London and Westminster Review, Nos. xii. and... | |
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