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English partisans of the South: the Carlylese apologists of slavery, -- a very small sect; and the political advocates of Secession, who, partly with full conviction, partly as a mere matter of unchallenged use and wont, repudiated slavery, -- a very large sect.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various
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For some six or eight enthusiastic years, I was saturated with Carlyle; I thought Carlyle and talked and wrote in unconscious Carlylese, and one day when in the library at the British Museum I got an actual bodily sight of my deity,
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray
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English, but specimens of _Carlylese_ may be found in his _Sartor
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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On the verge of his entrance into public life he affronted the working-classes by telling them, with more than Carlylese directness and exaggeration, that they were 'mostly liars.'
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various
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He had turned, contemporaries said, from the plain though witty style of his first works to the gorgeous manner of Sir Thomas Browne; he had been infected, say later critics, with Carlylese and the midsummer madness of the New England transcendentalists.
Chapter 3. Romances of Adventure. Section 2. Herman Melville 1921
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Carlylese, though individual and vigorous, is yet not style; it is a Teutonic mannerism.
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Poetic phraseology, especially the Carlylese superlative.
Style. 1908
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By this simplest of all possible expedients, 'wear and tear' ceases to be English, and becomes Carlylese, and Emerson acquires an exclusive property (so at least one hopes) in 'nothing or little'.
Miscellaneous. 1908
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Christian-Carlylese point of view, declared of Montaigne that "All that we find in him of Christianity would be suitable to apes and dogs rather than to rational and moral beings" (_London and Westminster Review_, July, 1838, p. 340.) [168] Sainte-Beuve has noted how in the essay on Prayer he added many safeguarding clauses in the later editions.
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English, and not in Carlylese -- his sense of spirit is always more lively than his sense of form.
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