Monday, October 08, 2012

 

A Scorner of Contemporaries

T.E. Brown (1830-1897), Letters, ed. Sidney T. Irwin (Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., 1900), Vol. II, p. 15 (letter to Irwin, January 28, 1894):
Add that he is a scorner of contemporaries, totally incapable of discovering in this century or much later than the Conquest any being male or female that can interest him, or is worthy of his attention.



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