Word: senancour
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...Lovett contributes an article on Obermann. It shows critical insight but is neutral in effeet. The author is without either fellow-feeling for, or hostility against his subject. Thus the article must be utterly unsatistactory to those who are so unfortunate as to experrence De Senancour's sorrowful mysticism and inactive melancholy, while it fails to attract those who approach Obermann as students of literature, and seek to know what others have thought of him. Mr. Lovett's article appears to lack spontaneity...
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