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Quotation from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
“poor Johnson had to go about girt with continual hypochondria, physical and spiritual pain”
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture V (The Hero as Man of Letters) (Project Gutenberg #1091)
Carlyle presents Johnson's sufferings as bound up with his nobleness, like the shirt of Nessus he cannot strip off.
Citation: "poor Johnson had to go about girt with continual hypochondria, physical and spiritual pain" — Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture V (The Hero as Man of Letters) (Project Gutenberg #1091). (id on-heroes-hero-worship-q11)
