Show SARTOR x feb thomas catlyne died at half eight from last evening until wa ex eay nd the heart action was prece II 11 suffered none at leafa thirty bourg before he died ui niece WM with him lo 10 the bajt it is under blood abal be will bo buried in the of hi birthplace which i thui bounded the last news from abe dying bed of the greatest english of thi century like mar mfr Bc offing poet h e had or deelo an d month ye yeorg been entombed in a mat tru art the highl once U lumio td alt declining unto the dying flicker the spent candle so oen after alie deith of the greatest great female gelmi of modern albion george eliot the departure of the moat cirile mind of great britain learoa a doubly iad gap in the glorious glor ioui galaxy of british men and women of letters the bloy although long anticipated ii none the ica deplorable and remind u forcibly of the of all thing mundane eren unto master mind among thorn carlyle wai scotchman a the vigor of hi etyle and the tb often of his character would have told any one even unacquainted with the foot of his birth in parish of coddon lie entered chii abere of eniti once when tb revolutionary era delio tor he aft erwardi became wax fairly in on dec when the throne of emperor and kengi tottered n their rotten pedestal and he revolutionary foldier eol dier brought to the downtrodden nation of Europe the blazing light of liberty even on the point of the bayonet after an elementary education at a pariah and a seven yean coune at finburgh where bit tudie were irregular but brilliant and all embracing a year mathematics but devoted all abo powerful energies of ais versatile mind to litera tur M a pro fenion hi first effort were contributions to Brew eters encyclopedia he ulio published work but the firt clarion ring of this eagle which frightened and cowed the lowly poultry of the was hia masterly life of schiller which has feature excelling anything even in the numerous biographies grap hies of the great german poet written by the latter own country men corlyle like many olber scotch poets and thicken among whom we will only name scott was carer attracted by the cognate genius of goethe and schiller and he it wai chiefly who showed to britons that the lit grature of germany in falness ful ness sincerity and earnestness of purpose was greatly superior to what was admired and relished at home among the numerous essays with which carlyle so deeply and ir resist ably contemporaneous eon thought among his fellow citizens german literature and literati occupy a prominent place and he succeeded unconsciously though we must call it informing distinct school of english thinkers and writ ers whose ideal teachers were schiller kant fichte jean paul and other in the realm of thought but not only the ethereal heights of speculative philosophy and lyric poesy attracted carlyles eagle eye he likewise pierced the depths and abysses of the human heart eren in to all its most hideous and rebellious moods the french revolution was a subject that few have grad and bandied more congenially more spiritedly than he nothing can be more gorgeous than the style of this prose epic in which mirabeau Hi others act and do as did the heroes of the homeric apica bonaparte was the subject of his most bitter sarcasm of his almost hatred great of matody be wrote in four wa his idolphe ido luhe justly aw antho one incarnate ia the illumination A labor of WM hia nUon nd speeches Spee cheB with nd connecting Nr rT 1845 in tb degrant first revealed to the englith tv ruler tey ter had A curious curi ing of tragic pao solemn riotous hamoi was his sartor TheT ailT doo over which io be the history of A certain devilb DeTi lB dirt professor in the of and which con taina the manifold bione tione mental agonies and treala of that peron gt ander wroge mask we the intense gleam of carlyles Carly leg eye and the sardonic lar donic twitch of hi mouth his nerce talmot fero aou productions were the latter day pamphlet 1850 the Tio teno of language offended many at an immutable rale the approbation or blame of the multitude berer made carlyle te en hajri greidth from the conviction n bich though anh and quaint were firm fand m band bud beba palf lied IOD b fore bl mind and when abo grim pter of duta bushed the quivering accent ic cent from hi lipi forever lo rever when the once akright fand keen ayea cloaked by loving hand to open no more a nation anny the civilized uni verca mourned for it knew it had loit hiaring light a chanpion chun pion ft faithful warden of all true in thi fleeting how of mortality |