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rate dulness to amuse us. Us,
above all, by virtue of the custom of counter-
change here set forth.

Who shall say whether, by operation of the
same exchange, the English poets that so per-
sist in France may not reveal something within
the English language--one would be somewhat
loth to think so--reserved to the French reader
peculiarly? Byron to the multitude, Edgar
Poe to the select? Then would some of the
mysteries of French reading of English be ex-
plained otherwise than by the plainer explana-
tion that has hitherto satisfied our haughty
curiosity. The taste for rhetoric seemed to ac-
count for Byron, and the desire of the rhetori-
cian to claim a taste for poetry seemed to ac-
count for Poe. But, after all, patatras! Who
can say?

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays. Contributors: Alice Meynell - author. Publisher: J. Lane. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1899. Page Number: 76.
    
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