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Life of John Sterling-Part5_Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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young family; much attached to one another in their College years as

afterwards. Glasgow, however, was not properly their College scene:



here, except that they had some tuition from Mr. Jacobson, then a

senior fellow-student, now (1851) the learned editor of St. Basil, and



Regius Professor of Divinity in Oxford, who continued ever afterwards

a valued intimate of John's, I find nothing special recorded of them.



The Glasgow curriculum, for John especially, lasted but one year; who,

after some farther tutorage from Mr. Jacobson or Dr. Trollope, was



appointed for a more ambitioussphere of education.

In the beginning of his nineteenth year, "in the autumn of 1824," he



went to Trinity College, Cambridge. His brother Anthony, who had

already been there a year, had just quitted this Establishment, and



entered on a military life under good omens; I think, at Dublin under

the Lord Lieutenant's patronage, to whose service he was, in some



capacity, attached. The two brothers, ever in company hitherto,

parted roads at this point; and, except on holiday visits and by



frequent correspondence, did not again live together; but they

continued in a true fraternalattachment while life lasted, and I



believe never had any even temporary estrangement, or on either side a

cause for such. The family, as I said, was now, for the last three



years, reduced to these two; the rest of the young ones, with their

laughter and their sorrows, all gone. The parents otherwise were



prosperous in outward circumstances; the Father's position more and

more developing itself into affluent security, an agreeablecircle of



acquaintance, and a certain real influence, though of a peculiar sort,

according to his gifts for work in this world.



Sterling's Tutor at Trinity College was Julius Hare, now the

distinguished Archdeacon of Lewes:--who soon conceived a great esteem



for him, and continued ever afterwards, in looser or closer

connection, his loved and loving friend. As the Biographical and



Editorial work above alluded to abundantly evinces. Mr. Hare

celebrates the wonderful and beautiful gifts, the sparkling ingenuity,



ready logic, eloquentutterance, and noble generosities and pieties of

his pupil;--records in particular how once, on a sudden alarm of fire



in some neighboring College edifice while his lecture was proceeding,

all hands rushed out to help; how the undergraduates instantly formed



themselves in lines from the fire to the river, and in swift

continuance kept passing buckets as was needful, till the enemy was



visibly fast yielding,--when Mr. Hare, going along the line, was

astonished to find Sterling, at the river-end of it, standing up to



his waist in water, deftlydealing with the buckets as they came and

went. You in the river, Sterling; you with your coughs, and dangerous



tendencies of health!--"Somebody must be in it," answered Sterling;

"why not I, as well as another?" Sterling's friends may remember many



traits of that kind. The swiftest in all things, he was apt to be

found at the head of the column, whithersoever the march might be; if



towards any brunt of danger, there was he surest to be at the head;

and of himself and his peculiar risks or impediments he was negligent



at all times, even to an excessive and plainlyunreasonable degree.

Mr. Hare justly refuses him the character of an exact scholar, or



technical proficient at any time in either of the ancient literatures.

But he freely read in Greek and Latin, as in various modern languages;



and in all fields, in the classical as well, his livelyfaculty of

recognition and assimilation had given him large booty in proportion



to his labor. One cannot under any circumstances conceive of Sterling

as a steady dictionary philologue, historian, or archaeologist; nor



did he here, nor could he well, attempt that course. At the same

time, Greek and the Greeks being here before him, he could not fail to



gather somewhat from it, to take some hue and shape from it.

Accordingly there is, to a singularextent, especially in his early






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