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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

by Samuel Butler

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Walter Pater and Matthew Arnold

Mr. Walter Pater’s style is, to me, like the face of some old woman who has been to Madame Rachel and had herself enamelled. The bloom is nothing but powder and paint and the odour is cherry-blossom. Mr. Matthew Arnold’s odour is as the faint sickliness of hawthorn.

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