Sartor Resartus

[ sahr-ter ri-sahr-tuhs ]

noun

1. a satirical work (1833–34) by Carlyle.

Example Sentences

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 Literature

Pratfalls abound in the opening episode, even as we are serviced by the buttoned-up B-roll of collegiate life: a Northeastern campus blanketed by snow, a leather-bound edition of Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus, stained glass windows depicting scenes of medieval piety and anguish, and massive oil portraits of old white men whose names adorn all the buildings.

From Slate

—Sterling, in a letter to Carlyle, objects to the use of this word by his biographer in his Sartor Resartus, calling it a hustings and newspaper word, brought in, as he had heard, by O'Connell.

From Project Gutenberg

In "Sartor Resartus" he has vivaciously recorded some of the incidents and impressions of his childhood here,—notably the passage of the Carlisle coach, like "some terrestrial moon, coming from he knew not where, going he knew not whither."

From Project Gutenberg

FitzGerald, in a letter to Frederick Tennyson, quotes with approval a criticism of Lowell’s that Carlyle “was a poet in all but rhythm”; and it would not be difficult to find “parallel passages” between Tennyson and Carlyle, between Sartor Resartus and “In Memoriam.”

From Project Gutenberg