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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - Transcendentalism in literature - 1831 - 294 pages
...Life, . of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility : it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. O, the vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death ! Why was the Living banished thither companionless,...
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Sartor Resartus: In Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1837 - 322 pages
...life, of purpose, of volition, even of hostility ; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. 0 the vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and mill of death ! Why was the living banished thither companionless,...
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Sartor Resartus; the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hosti' lity : it was one huge, dead, immeasurable, Steam-engine, ' rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb ' from limb. 0 the vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and ' Mill of Death ! Why was the Living banished thither '...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 66

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 658 pages
...life, or purpose, of volition, even of hos tility : it was one huye, dead, immeasurable steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. 0 the vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha and mill of death ! Why was the living banished, thither companionless,...
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported ...

Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 490 pages
...of Purpose, of Volition, even of ' Hostility : it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, ' rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. ' O the vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death ! Why ' was the Living banished thither...
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Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus

Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of ' Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, ' rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. ' O the vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why ' was the Living banished thither companionless,...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh : in Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - 1866 - 138 pages
...Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility : it was one huge, dead, immeasurable, Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. O the vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the Living banished .hither companionless,...
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Sartor resartus.-v.2-4 French revolution. -v.5. Life of Friedrich Schiller ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1870 - 326 pages
...all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even ' of Hostility : it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam' engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb ' from limb. 0, the vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill ' of Death ! Why was the Living banished thither com'...
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The Preacher's lantern, Volume 2

1872 - 778 pages
...life, cf purpose, of volition, even of hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable steam-engine, rolling on in its dead indifference to grind me limb from limb. Oh, the vast, gloomy, solitary t'Olgotha and mill of Death ! why was the living banished thither, companionless,...
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Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and Ruskin

Peter Bayne - English literature - 1879 - 464 pages
...life, of purpose, of volition, even of hostility ; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable steamengine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. 0, the vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and mill of death !" He " lived in a continual, indefinite,...
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