I was distressed with a sense of ephemerality, of pale, erratic fragility.
"The White Peacock"
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
An enthusiast for the people, and an eager disciple of Carlyle, he produced in the fateful year 1849 two novels, Alton Locke and Yeast, a little crude, immature, and violent, but of wonderful power and beauty as literature, and putting current ideas of Chartism, the Tractarian movement, the woes of the working classes, and what not, with that most uncommon touch which takes out of the expression all its ephemerality.
"A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)"
George Saintsbury