Значение слова STERLING в Литературной энциклопедии

JOHN (1806-1844).-Essayist and miscellaneous writer, _s._ of Edward S., a well-known writer in the _Times_, was _b._ in Bute, and _ed._ at Glasgow and Camb. At the latter he became acquainted with a group of brilliant men, including F.D. Maurice, Trench, and Monckton Milnes. He took orders and became curate to Julius Hare (_q.v._); but intellectual difficulties and indifferent health led to his resignation within a year, and the rest of his life was passed in alternating between England and warmer climes. He wrote for _Blackwood's Magazine_, the _London and Westminster_, and _Quarterly Reviews_, and _pub._ _Essays and Tales_, _The Election_, a humorous poem, _Strafford_, a tragedy, and _Richard Coeur de Lion_, a serio-comic poem of which three books out of eight were _pub._ His memory, perpetuated in a remarkable memoir by Carlyle, lives rather by what he was than by anything he did. His character and intellect appear to have exercised a singular influence on the eminent men he numbered among his friends.