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nobter than his orlis, great an nobi a the are, that it is dissi cultri spea of him ithout apparent excess. What a los to the wori the di sappearan eo that large, acute, an fine underStanding that searching, inevitabie inne an outer eye ollataeenand yet indi satiri touch that wonderi ut humour an play of souli An the suci a master of his mollier longues Such a styles such nicet os ordan turn such a flavour of speech Such genuine originalit os genius and expression such an insight

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reat, a 'movin delicate an fudis Ese, a the ostheroi incarnations of good an evit in his vita tyand et glitnes of handling, oin i once and

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suCh,-but the delicate satiri treaiment of humannature in iis mos superficia aspects as ei as in iis inner depilis by a reat hearled. and tende and

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genuine Sympathy, UnSparin g, truthil, inevitabie, but illi love and the love o goodnes an truel oving-hindnes over-archin an indeed animatingit all. It was et sal by Brimiey, in his subile and jus estimate of ur great author in his Essays thath could not have aintex Vanit Fal a he has,untes Eden ad been hining in his inne e3 e. It was his sense of an all-perfect good, of a strict good-nesilaidipon ea hisne si as an neSCapable laN, it was his glimpse into the Paradise, o tost of thelovel and the pure, hicli quichened his fel insight in to the Vileness, the Vanity the hortComings, thepitimines of us ali, of himself not les than o anyson o time. Butras e nCeaeardaim say, he was create With a Sense of the gly, of the odit, of the meant false, the desperately iched he lai thembare them unde ali disguises e unte to thedeath. An is no this omething o have done pSomethin inestimabie, though at times readsuland shar purges the ou by terror an pity. This, illi his truthminess, his Cor Os exaggeration in thought or ord, and hi Wide, deep, vingsympath for the entire round of human wanis and miseries, oes far o mali his orlis in the est,

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Genti an sacredis these ord are the are asmuch an essentia part of thei author' natur a that superfluity of aughtiness, the arquis of Steyne, in Vanis ' ais, o the eide and trul in serna DeuceaCe, o the runken an Savage parson, in Thitis It was no ordinar instrument hi Ch embra Ced so much, an no ordinar master lio could o ound iis