A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 3 (of 3), Modern criticism

Note 818 — Chapter IV · THE CHANGE IN THE OTHER NATIONS.

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I beg pardon: when I wrote the above I had not read the boast of the gentleman who could “come to a pile of new books, tear the entrails out of them, and write a 1500-word causerie, passably stylistic, all within sixty minutes”! But perhaps this also was irony?

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