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Life of John Sterling-Part22_Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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under such conditions of swiftness, I have never seen a parallel.



Essentially an _improviser_ genius; as his Father too was, and of

admirable completeness he too, though under a very different form.



If Sterling has done little in Literature, we may ask, What other man

than he, in such circumstances, could have done anything? In virtue



of these rapid faculties, which otherwise cost him so dear, he has

built together, out of those wavering boiling quicksands of his few



later years, a result which may justly surprise us. There is actually

some result in those poor Two Volumes gathered from him, such as they



are; he that reads there will not wholly lose his time, nor rise with

a malison instead of a blessing on the writer. Here actually is a



real seer-glance, of some compass, into the world of our day; blessed

glance, once more, of an eye that is human; truer than one of a



thousand, and beautifullycapable of making others see with it. I

have known considerabletemporary reputations gained, considerable



piles of temporary guineas, with loud reviewing and the like to match,

on a far less basis than lies in those two volumes. Those also, I



expect, will be held in memory by the world, one way or other, till

the world has extracted all its benefit from them. Graceful,



ingenious and illuminative reading, of their sort, for all manner of

inquiring souls. A little verdant flowery island of poetic intellect,



of melodious human verity; sunlit island founded on the rocks;--which

the enormous circumambient continents of mown reed-grass and floating



lumber, with _their_ mountain-ranges of ejected stable-litter however

alpine, cannot by any means or chance submerge: nay, I expect, they



will not even quite hide it, this modest little island, from the

well-discerning; but will float past it towards the place appointed



for them, and leave said island standing. _Allah kereem_, say the

Arabs! And of the English also some still know that there is a,



difference in the material of mountains!--

As it is this last little result, the amount of his poor and



ever-interrupted literary labor, that henceforth forms the essential

history of Sterling, we need not dwell at too much length on the



foreign journeys, disanchorings, and nomadic vicissitudes of

household, which occupy his few remaining years, and which are only



the disastrous and accidental arena of this. He had now, excluding

his early and more deliberateresidence in the West Indies, made two



flights abroad, once with his family, once without, in search of

health. He had two more, in rapid succession, to make, and many more



to meditate; and in the whole from Bayswater to the end, his family

made no fewer than five complete changes of abode, for his sake. But



these cannot be accepted as in any sense epochs in his life: the one

last epoch of his life was that of his internal change towards



Literature as his work in the world; and we need not linger much on

these, which are the mere outer accidents of that, and had no



distinguished influence in modifying that.

Friends still hoped the unrest of that brilliant too rapid soul would



abate with years. Nay the doctors sometimes promised, on the physical

side, a like result; prophesying that, at forty-five or some mature



age, the stress of disease might quit the lungs, and direct itself to

other quarters of the system. But no such result was appointed for



us; neither forty-five itself, nor the ameliorations promised then,

were ever to be reached. Four voyages abroad, three of them without



his family, in flight from death; and at home, for a like reason, five

complete shiftings of abode: in such wandering manner, and not



otherwise, had Sterling to continue his pilgrimage till it ended.

Once more I must say, his cheerfulness throughout was wonderful. A



certain grimmer shade, coming gradually over him, might perhaps be




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