The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

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• Goldwin Smith:

  The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his

• Goldwin Smith:

  The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the

• Goldwin Smith:

  Personality is lower than partiality.

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  Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that

• Goldwin Smith:

  I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a grea

• Goldwin Smith:

  There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their

• Goldwin Smith:

  Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

• Goldwin Smith:

  As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it

• Goldwin Smith:

  America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the u

• Goldwin Smith:

  Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beaut