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The famous Germanic scholar Sophus Bugge believed that clothes were first and foremost things thrown over the body (and he cited a relevant...
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Thomas Carlyle, the Sage of Chelsea, was neither a liberal nor a democrat, but he was also not a “small c” conservative who believed gradual reform was either...
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"THE DANDY," WROTE THE English belle-lettrist Cyril Connolly, "is but the larval form of a bore."^^1^^ He registered this opinion in 1960, after England had...
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3619 words. Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle, edited by Rodger Tarr and Mark Engel. California, 774 pp., £38, April 2000, 0 520 20928.
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Thomas Carlyle was highly influential in the Victorian era and beyond as essayist, historian, and philosopher.
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CARLYLE, the great Victorian student of history, ad-. mired by such contemporaries as Dickens, Tennyson, Emerson, Browning and Thackeray,...
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