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... Matthew Arnold without giving a moment's attention to the elegance , distinc- tion and sobriety with which he set down what he had to say . The dictum that the style is the man is well known . It is one of those aphorisms that say too ...
... Matthew Arnold without giving a moment's attention to the elegance , distinc- tion and sobriety with which he set down what he had to say . The dictum that the style is the man is well known . It is one of those aphorisms that say too ...
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... Matthew Arnold . But Matthew Arnold , he thought , was a bit of a philistine himself . He talked to me of Swin- burne's Poems and Ballads and of Omar Khayyám . He knew a great many of the quatrains by heart and recited them to me on our ...
... Matthew Arnold . But Matthew Arnold , he thought , was a bit of a philistine himself . He talked to me of Swin- burne's Poems and Ballads and of Omar Khayyám . He knew a great many of the quatrains by heart and recited them to me on our ...
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... Matthew Arnold or even Brune- tière . It is true that he would not have occupied him- self much with current literature , and if we may judge by the three I have mentioned , had he done so it would have been of no direct service to ...
... Matthew Arnold or even Brune- tière . It is true that he would not have occupied him- self much with current literature , and if we may judge by the three I have mentioned , had he done so it would have been of no direct service to ...
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