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Excerpt from Prophets of the Nineteenth Century: Carlyle, Ruskin, Tolstoi
Could; born before the Reign of Terror had died away, which he was yet to make so terribly real to us; born before that portentous mix ture of quackery and hero, Napo leon, had commenced to show his hand. The men who came into the world at the same time with Carlyle belong without question to a past age. Keats was born a year later, Shelley three years earlier, Byron six years earlier. All three, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, had done what they were to do in the world, and had passed out of it, before Carlyle had found out what his work was to be. Had his life been no longer than that of these three contemporaries, his name would never have been known. At the.
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