[[2]] Ibid., ii. 212.
[[3]] Quoted in Froude: Thomas Carlyle, a History of his Life in London, i. 140, from a letter of Carlyle's to his brother.
[[4]] See note by Carlyle in Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, ed. Froude, i. 107.
[[5]] Sartor Resartus, II. iii.
[[6]] Address delivered to the Students of Edinburgh University—April 2, 1866.
[[7]] Froude: Thomas Carlyle, a History of the First Forty Years of his Life, ii. 26.
[[8]] Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836, p. 123.
[[9]] Quoted from a letter from Carlyle to his brother, October 10, 1828. There is here a reminiscence of the opening lines of Horace's Ars Poetica.
[[10]] Froude: Thomas Carlyle, a History of the First Forty Years of his Life, ii. 31-35.
[[11]] For this reason, a brief sketch of the poet's life is given the reader after this Introduction. See pp. xiv.-xvii.