Note 930 — Chapter II · BETWEEN COLERIDGE AND ARNOLD.
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It may seem whimsical: but I doubt whether any one of a really critical ethos would put down, even in his private diary, that a private enemy and a hostile reviewer was “a bad, a very bad man, a scandal to politics and letters.” Criticism herself would, I think, condescend to give any of her favourite children’s ears an Apollonian twitch.