Visit The Victorian Web's essay on "Sage
Writing." Apply the information there about the "the prophetic
pattern"
and the "characteristic literary techniques of sage-writing" to either
or both of the readings
from Carlyle. Since we read excerpts from longer works, can you
identify
the part of the pattern into which various excerpts seem to fall? What
characteristics of "sage-writing" are evident in various excerpts? Be
sure to use the texts
to support your statements, and to explain what functions a particular
example serves.