"It is really, as Coleridge I think said of something else, like reading a story by flashes of lightning!"
— Thomas Carlyle

January 1, 1970

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Francis Jeffrey, 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 of lightning”.