On The Art of Reading
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On The Art of Reading

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Arthur Quiller-Couch Other

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(1920)
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H. F. S. and H. M. C.
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Lecture XII

ON THE USE OF MASTERPIECES

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1918

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I do not think, Gentlemen, that we need to bother ourselves today with any definition of a 'classic,' or of the stigmata by which a true classic can be recognised. Sainte-Beuve once indicated these in a famous discourse, "Qu'est-ce qu'un classique": and it may suffice us ……

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