Fragment of a letter : London, to John Ruskin, [1883] Nov. 12.

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Fragment of a letter : London, to John Ruskin, [1883] Nov. 12.

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Discussing his work on the letters and memorials [of Jane Welsh Carlyle] and his continuing work on "his [Carlyle] own letters and journals of the same period; a Rembrandt portrait forms itself exquisitely noble--yet this more and more is impressed upon me that he had not naturally a robust constitution of character. Instead of quiet strength he had passion--generous through every emotion of it, but still passion--and running out of control at every turn. His strength was moral, the moral determination to do right and speak truth which governed his general thought & general action with a completeness unparalleled in our days--but left him open to impatiences and irritabilities,..... in a way that was terribly trying."

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