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  1. George Eliot _ Silly Novels by Lady Novelists

    ...His tall figure, the distinguished simplicity of his air-it was a living Vandyke, a cavalier, one of his noble cavalier ancestors, or one to whom her fancy had always likened him, who long of yore had with an Umfraville fought the Paynim far beyond the sea. Was this reality?" Very little like it, certainly.
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  2. George Eliot _ Silly Novels by Lady Novelists

    By a peculiar thermometric adjustment, when a woman's talent is at zero, journalistic approbation is at the boiling pitch; when she attains mediocrity, it is already at no more than summer heat; and if ever she reaches excellence, critical enthusiasm drops to the freezing point.
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