Word: walpoleiana
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...steady standard, and endowed his works as a whole with a corporate character. Voltaire, Goethe, George Sand, Wells, Bennett, and Belloc, on the other hand, are no use for this purpose . . . They all wrote some rubbish. And to the scholars can be left the mountainous minutiae of Walpoleiana, or the Boswell Papers. Above all, do not let Montague's 'true intimacy' with even 'a dozen supremely loved authors' exclude your interest in all else. As he would have been the first to tell you, 'Ripeness...
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