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13} A footnote, at least, is due to the admirable example set  
before all young writers in the width of literary sympathy  
displayed by Mr. Swinburne. He runs forth to welcome merit,  
whether in Dickens or Trollope, whether in Villon, Milton, or Pope.  
This is, in criticism, the attitude we should all seek to preserve;  
not only in that, but in every branch of literary work.  
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14} First published in the British Weekly, May 13, 1887.  
15} Of the British Weekly.  
16} First published in the Magazine of Art in 1883.  
17} First published in the Idler, August 1894.  
18} Ne pas confondre. Not the slim green pamphlet with the  
imprint of Andrew Elliot, for which (as I see with amazement from  
the book-lists) the gentlemen of England are willing to pay fancy  
prices; but its predecessor, a bulky historical romance without a  
spark of merit, and now deleted from the world.  
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19} 1889.  
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