“On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.”

— Matthew Arnold

Literary Influence of Academies, p. 69
Essays in Criticism (1865)

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English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… 1822–1888

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