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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.
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