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Excerpt from Littell's Living Age, Vol. 168: Fifth Series, Volume LIII; January, February, March, 1886
Precisely; and so Mr. Arnold and Mr. Swinburne might answer Mr. Courthope's complaints of their lack of argument, The matter is one not for argument, but for perception. One feels, or perceives, in reading Pope, the lack of what one can not well argue about, the lack of the in definable glory of poetry, the bloom on it, as happiness is, according to Aristotle, the bloom on a life of goodness. Mr. Swinburne, avoiding argument, writes.
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