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For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.


Thomas Carlyle - Zitate und Sprüche  Thomas Carlyle

Scotsh author, essayist, and historian
Quelle: Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review

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born * December 4, 1795, Ecclefechan
died † February 4, 1881, London, England
function author, essayist, and historian


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biography bottom but faithfully for heroic its life may poem recorded rhymed said sort the there unrhymed world


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