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Bust of Carlyle in the Hall of Heroes at the Wallace Monument, 1891. Thomas Carlyle's religious, historical and political thought has long been the subject of debate.In the 19th century, he was "an enigma" according to Ian Campbell in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, being "variously regarded as sage and impious, a moral leader, a moral desperado, [a] a radical, a conservative, a Christian."
James D. Merritt suggests that Carlyle be considered as the original of St. Barbe in Disraeli's Endymion (1880). [10] Swinburne wrote the sonnets "On the Deaths of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot" and "After Looking into Carlyle's Reminiscences" (1882). [11] Montgomery Schuyler composed a sonnet, "Carlyle and Emerson" (1883). [12]
A recovering Phillip offers his share of the profits to help Barnum rebuild the circus in exchange for becoming a full partner, which Barnum readily accepts. To economize, Barnum transforms the enterprise into an open-air tent circus. The revamped circus is a huge success ("The Greatest Show").
Algernon Charles Swinburne, whose comments on Carlyle throughout his writings range from high praise to scathing critique, once wrote to John Morley that Carlyle was "the illustrious enemy whom we all lament", reflecting a view of Carlyle as a totalizing figure to be rebelled against.
I firmly think we’d all be better people if we could understand our emotions the way Pixar explains them in the Inside Out franchise. Sadness is a feeling to be recognized and appreciated, not ...
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Napoleon, a typical great man, said to have created the "Napoleonic" era through his military and political genius. The great man theory is an approach to the study of history popularised in the 19th century according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes: highly influential and unique individuals who, due to their natural attributes, such as superior ...
Even weeks after the fire, the kids are "unsettled," according to Laura-Lee: "We just got Joel-James back into a kind of routine." Tiffany, meanwhile, is having night terrors.