3 months 2 weeks ago
It is really, as Coleridge I think said of something else, like reading a story by flashes of lightning!
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Francis Jeffrey, [http://carlyleletters.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/full/9/1/lt-18370530-TC-JAC-01#FN4 letter to Carlyle] (30 May 1837) on The French Revolution. This is often repeated as stating that Carlyle's style is “like reading history by flashes o

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