Excerpt from Essays on English Literature Matthew Arnold praised it, I think he was a little bribed, as we are all apt to be, by the fact that it was so different in form and style from his own that the two, to a certain extent, set off and set out each other. But that it needs no illegitimate or at least adventitious advantage of this kind the examples which follow will show; and I hope that the introductory essay will at least not inter fere with the presentment. When M. Scherer was approached by Mr. Reid on the subject, ...
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Excerpt from Essays on English Literature Matthew Arnold praised it, I think he was a little bribed, as we are all apt to be, by the fact that it was so different in form and style from his own that the two, to a certain extent, set off and set out each other. But that it needs no illegitimate or at least adventitious advantage of this kind the examples which follow will show; and I hope that the introductory essay will at least not inter fere with the presentment. When M. Scherer was approached by Mr. Reid on the subject, he said, I am told, Why should I pour my little pailful into the ocean of English literature? The meta phor was modest but not exact. I think it will be found that the pail was rather used in drawing, from no common depths, samples of that literature to be analyzed with no common science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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