Selections from Carlyle
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ISBN13: 9780217550154
Paperback|9780217550154
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. laser's Magazine, No. 28. 1832.] JrCsop's My, sitting on the axle of the chariot, has beeu much laughed at for exclaiming: ' What a dust I do raise ' Yet which of us, in his way, has not sometimes been guilty of the like ? Nay, so foolish are men, they often, standing at ease and as spectators on the highway, will volunteer to exclaim of the Fly (not being tempted to it, as he was) exactly to the same purport: ' What a dust thou dost raise ' Smallest of mortals, when mounted aloft by circumstances, come to seem great; smallest of phenomena connected with them are treated as important, and must be sedulously scanned, and commented upon with loud emphasis. That Mr. Croker should undertake to edit Boswell's Life of Johnson, was a praiseworthy but no miraculous procedure: neither could the accomplishment of such undertaking be, in an epoch like ours, anywise regarded as an event in Universal History; the right or the wrong accomplishment thereof was, in very truth, one of the most insignificant of things. However, it sat in a great environment, on the axle of a high, fast-rolling, parliamentary chariot; and all the world has exclaimed over it, and the author of it: ' What a dust thou dost raise ' List to the Reviews, and Organs of Public Opinion, from the National Omnibus upwards: criticisms, vituperative and laudatory, stream from their thousand throats of brass and of leather; here chanting lo-pceans; there grating harsh thunder or vehemerit shrewmouse squeaklets; till the general ear is filled, and nigh deafened. Boswell's Book had a noiseless birth, compared with this Edition of Boswell's Book. On the other hand, consider with what degree of tumult Paradise Lost and the Iliad were ushered in To swell such clamor, or prolong it beyond the t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217550154 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217550150 |
| Weight | 0.59 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 176 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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