Walter Pater and Matthew Arnold

Mr. Walter Pater’s style is, to me, like the face of some old woman who

has been to Madame Rachel and had herself enamelled. The bloom is

nothing but powder and paint and the odour is cherry-blossom. Mr.

Matthew Arnold’s odour is as the faint sickliness of hawthorn.

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