To touch successively upon these points is to attempt a portrait, which I shall perhaps not altogether have failed to produce.I'm just saying, most of us would not put our pens down and say, there, that's done.
August 19, 2009
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I take your point. But I think that anything HJ wrote while, for example, drunk, sleep-deprived, and under attack by a swarm of locusts would still likely be 10 times better than anything I could write at the best of times - so it's hard for me to really criticize him. ;)
Maybe it's not so bad in context? :-)
I have to admit that even as a confirmed Jacobite, I have no idea where the sentence is from.
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