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Many writers whom I had quite forgotten, or remembered but faintly, lived again for me, they and their work, in Mr. Holbrook Jackson's pages. 🔊

Throughout, in fact, there was a great variety of form, and the forms had evidently been wrought with much care. 🔊

I suppose it is my capacity for faith, not poor Soames's work, that is weaker than it once was. 🔊

Nevertheless, I did, a day or two later, tentatively ask Harland if he knew anything of the work of a man called Enoch Soames. 🔊

Neither he nor his work received the slightest encouragement; but he persisted in behaving as a personage: always he kept his dingy little flag flying. 🔊

He never sought to propitiate his fellow-writers, never bated a jot of his arrogance about his own work or of his contempt for theirs. 🔊

Such lack of thoroughness is a serious fault in any one who undertakes to do scholar's work. 🔊

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