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... three maxims which are " to serve both as characteristics to distinguish a true modern critic from a pretender , and also to be of admirable use to those worthy spirits who engage in so useful and honourable an art . The first is , that ...
... three maxims which are " to serve both as characteristics to distinguish a true modern critic from a pretender , and also to be of admirable use to those worthy spirits who engage in so useful and honourable an art . The first is , that ...
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... not for one consolation — namely , that we are no better acquainted with the meaning of the book through which we have so painfully toiled , than we are with that of the three which we HYPERCRITICISM AND SLASHING CRITICISM . 45.
... not for one consolation — namely , that we are no better acquainted with the meaning of the book through which we have so painfully toiled , than we are with that of the three which we HYPERCRITICISM AND SLASHING CRITICISM . 45.
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Henry James Jennings. than we are with that of the three which we have not looked into . " It is not that Mr. Keats ( if that be his real name , for we almost doubt that any man in his senses would put his real name to such a rhapsody ) ...
Henry James Jennings. than we are with that of the three which we have not looked into . " It is not that Mr. Keats ( if that be his real name , for we almost doubt that any man in his senses would put his real name to such a rhapsody ) ...
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... three shots had been exchanged without effect , the honour of the parties was considered satisfied . The critic subsequently wrote a justificatory article in the pages of the magazine , in which , while admitting that some of the ...
... three shots had been exchanged without effect , the honour of the parties was considered satisfied . The critic subsequently wrote a justificatory article in the pages of the magazine , in which , while admitting that some of the ...
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... three of its passages indecent ; " but Mr. Reade accounted for this by saying that Mr. Oxenford , the regular critic , was away , and his work was entrusted to some " little scrub . " The plaintiff repudiated any impropriety in his play ...
... three of its passages indecent ; " but Mr. Reade accounted for this by saying that Mr. Oxenford , the regular critic , was away , and his work was entrusted to some " little scrub . " The plaintiff repudiated any impropriety in his play ...
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