Sunday, January 3, 2010

Daily Dose

From The Collected Essays and Papers of George Saintsbury 1875 - 1920

THE ORDINARY BIOGRAPHER

"He copies Moore in giving us much unnecessary matter; he copies him in far more unnecessary comment. The only things he does not copy him in are the excuses for these two faults, and the merit which, were they far greater, would redeem them."

From Some Great Biographers

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