Quotes · Quote card
Quotation from Essay on Burns by Thomas Carlyle
“through life he enacted a tragedy, and one of the deepest”
Essay on Burns, p. 10 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896))
Burns was often advised to write a tragedy; Carlyle replies that he lived one, sadder than Napoleon's exile.
Citation: "through life he enacted a tragedy, and one of the deepest" — Thomas Carlyle, Essay on Burns, p. 10 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896)). (id essay-on-burns-q3)
