“So you wish I had never quitted fiction for party, and that you had not met me ‘in the crowd and crush of politics!’ And you did not write the no-review, but really Patmore’s Lament, in the —— ——? Not you! As if I did not at once find you out by your style.
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“Have you seen the skimmed milk and water trash in the —— upon me? It is not at all offensive, but such stuff, both as to argument and criticism, that I really feel for the writer, who seems unfit almost for any critique, much less to grapple with what he has undertaken. If I have no more powerful opponent than he, I shall be well off. Bulwer, I believe, announces himself as one. We shall see.
