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- Aug 2022
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Selections from CarlyleEdited by H. W. BOYNTON. i2mo, cloth, 288 pages. Price, 75 cents.
And here I was not knowing who Carlyle was just a day or two ago and now I'm seeing advertisements for collections of his work! 😁
Apparently I've just been reading the wrong things and jumping back to the early 21st century is where it's all at.
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Imitation t o be avoided. Avoid the mannerisms andpersonal peculiarities of method or style of well-knownwriters, such as Carlyle or Macaulay.
Enough time has passed that these references are lost to me.
Were they so highly imitated at the time that they required a caution? (After almost no time lost on search, the answer is a resounding yes, particularly for Carlyle)
These are references to Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859).
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