The Christmas Books of Mr. M.a. Titmarsh
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.a. Titmarsh
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(and whowould grudge it to such a polite and generous and learned author?) If hefinds no disgrace in being paid, why should I? If he has ever been poor, why should he joke at my empty exchequer? Of course such a genius ispaid for his work: with such neat logic, such a pure style, such acharming poetical turn of phrase, of course a critic gets money. Why, aman who can say of a Christmas book that "it is an opuscule denominatedso-and-so, and ostensibly intended to swell the tide of expansiveemoti...on incident upon the exodus of the old year, " must evidently havehad immense sums and care expended on his early education, and deservesa splendid return. You can't go into the market, and get scholarshiplike THAT, without paying for it: even the flogging that such a writermust have had in early youth (if he was at a public school where therods were paid for), must have cost his parents a good sum. Where wouldyou find any but an accomplished classical scholar to compare the booksof the present (or indeed any other) writer to "sardonic divings afterthe pearl of truth, whose lustre is eclipsed in the display of thediseased oyster;" mere Billingsgate doesn't turn out oysters like these;they are of the Lucrine lake:--this satirist has pickled his rods inLatin brine.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
(and whowould grudge it to such a polite and generous and learned author?) If hefinds no disgrace in being paid, why should I? If he has ever been poor, why should he joke at my empty exchequer? Of course such a genius ispaid for his work: with such neat logic, such a pure style, such acharming poetical turn of phrase, of course a critic gets money. Why, aman who can say of a Christmas book that "it is an opuscule denominatedso-and-so, and ostensibly intended to swell the tide of expansiveemoti...on incident upon the exodus of the old year, " must evidently havehad immense sums and care expended on his early education, and deservesa splendid return. You can't go into the market, and get scholarshiplike THAT, without paying for it: even the flogging that such a writermust have had in early youth (if he was at a public school where therods were paid for), must have cost his parents a good sum. Where wouldyou find any but an accomplished classical scholar to compare the booksof the present (or indeed any other) writer to "sardonic divings afterthe pearl of truth, whose lustre is eclipsed in the display of thediseased oyster;" mere Billingsgate doesn't turn out oysters like these;they are of the Lucrine lake:--this satirist has pickled his rods inLatin brine.
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