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-LSB- 52 -RSB- #Thomas Carlyle # : a distinguished British author , died 1881 . One of his best-known books is `` Heroes and Hero Worship . '' There he found the eleven at high jinks after supper , Jack Raggles shouting comic songs , and performing feats of strength ; and was greeted by a chorus of mingled remonstrances at his desertion and joy at his reappearance . And falling in with the humor of the evening was soon as great a boy as all the rest ; and at ten o'clock was chaired -LSB- 53 -RSB- round the quadrangle , on one of the hall benches , borne aloft by the eleven , shouting in chorus , `` For he 's a jolly good fellow , '' while old Thomas , in a melting mood , and the other School-house servants stood looking on . -LSB- 53 -RSB- #Chaired # : here , carried . And the next morning after breakfast he squared up all the cricketing accounts , went round to his tradesmen and other acquaintances , and said his hearty good-byes ; and by twelve o'clock was in the train , and away for London , no longer a school-boy , and divided his thoughts between hero-worship , honest regrets over the long stage of his life which was now slipping out of sight behind him , and hopes and resolves for the next stage , upon which he was entering , with all the confidence of a young traveller . `` Strange friend , past , present , and to be ; Loved deeplier , darklier understood ; Behold , I dream a dream of good , And mingle all the world with thee . ''