Sartor Resartus
Americannoun
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Thomas Carlyle, an impoverished Scot, was scathing in Sartor Resartus, as was Thackeray in Vanity Fair.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had never read "Sartor Resartus," but she had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
From Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott
Sartor Resartus was at last appearing in Fraser’s Magazine, though the rate of payment was cut down, and the publisher reported that it was received with “unqualified dissatisfaction.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
Scarcely was the young ex-schoolmaster and author of "Sartor Resartus" well settled in his new abode than he began to receive callers, who, if not very famous then, have since achieved considerable renown.
From The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various
Sartor Resartus," Carlyle writes:— "As for Fraser, however, the idea of a new edition is frightful to him, or rather ludicrous, unimaginable.
From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold
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