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Its comparatively tame scenes and incidents gather picturesqueness and interest under the rich lights of Carlyle’s mind.
Frederick was the arch-enemy of France, and that fact was sufficient to attract the sympathies of Teufelsdröckh. It is Carlyle’s Gallophobia which has inspired one of the most mischievous masterpieces of English literature. The conspiracy of European historians has thus attached greatness to the very name of the third Hohenzollern King.
But, in opposition to the majority of Mr. Carlyle’s critics, we agree with him that the first life is properly the justification of the second.
Elsewhither for a refuge, or die here. Go to perdition if thou must, but not with a lie in thy mouth; by the eternal Maker, no!’” From the period when Carlyle’s own acquaintance with Sterling commenced, the Life has a double interest, from the glimpses it gives us of the writer, as well as of his hero.
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