Reviews: Quotes

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• "It is clear that art has at last reached the criminal classes."

  The Poets’ Corner I

• "A steady course of Balzac reduces our living friends to shadows, and our acquaintances to the shadows of shades."

  Balzac in English

• "As a writer he has mastered everything, except language; as a novelist he can do everything, except tell a story; as an artist he is everything, except articulate."

  Literary and Other Notes III

• "It has been said of him, and with truth, that he is a master of language, but with still greater truth it may be said that Language is his master."

  Mr. Swinburne’s Last Volume

• "He has nothing to say and says it."

  The Poets’ Corner IX

• "It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiassed opinion is always valueless."

  Mr. Pater’s Last Volume