Word: forli
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Or take for true worth what mere looks may betoken!
For the sorrowful eyes of this creature so good
For poverty's woes she had never a thought;
Would be, for a woman, mirabile dictu.
FOR a single writer to traverse the whole range of English literature without a stumble would be almost impossible. Mr. Taine, although on the whole wonderfully apt to be right, is acknowledged to have made some mistakes; and one of these mistakes is, I think, his estimation of Thackeray. It...