‘I believe there is nothing so noble as baldness,’ replied I, ‘and I am sure there is nothing so interesting. I would have all literature bald, and all authors (if you like) but one.’
‘Well, well,’ said Mr. Thomson, ‘we shall see.’
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FOOTNOTES
[3] First published in the Contemporary Review, April 1885
[21] Milton.
[24] Milton.
[33] Milton.
[34] As PVF will continue to haunt us through our English examples, take, by way of comparison, this Latin verse, of which it forms a chief adornment, and do not hold me answerable for the all too Roman freedom of the sense: ‘Hanc volo, quæ facilis, quæ palliolata vagatur.’
[35] Coleridge.