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- adjective Relating to Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish essayist and historian.
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Examples
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I know my point is Carlylean, but that does not invalidate it.
CHAPTER XXII 2010
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This vision of Victorian culture is very much in a post-Carlylean "Gospel of Mammonism" mode, in which characters worship at the shrine of the holy guinea.
The Fiend in Human 2004
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This vision of Victorian culture is very much in a post-Carlylean "Gospel of Mammonism" mode, in which characters worship at the shrine of the holy guinea.
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You cannot realize what a tremendous factor he has become until you discover personally the Carlylean hero worship of which he is the object.
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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Be these things as they may, the Carlylean gospel came to me, not as a revelation of another's mind, but as an unveiling of a something which seemed to have been for ever my own, though until that great hour I had not dreamed of its possession.
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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Yet it would appear as though the feminine mind were really incapable of impression by such Carlylean sublimities, for I saw Annie start for church awhile since in a most terrible combination of maroon and magenta.
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German literature had always kept its influence over him and had directed his attention to German history; Frederick, without religion as he was, seemed at any rate sincere, recognized facts, and showed practical capacity for ruling (essential elements in the Carlylean hero), and the subject would be new to his readers.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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It is perhaps the most Carlylean book Carlyle ever wrote.
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Ruskin also would appear, from some occasional expressions in what he has published, to have adopted the same view; as, indeed, he very generally does "Carlylize" when Carlylean subject-matter engages his pen.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various
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Carlylean branch house, who took good care to dilute them with buttermilk before merchanting them.
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