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John Churton Collins
John Churton Collins

John Churton Collins was an influential British literary critic, born on March 26, 1848, and died on September 25, 1908. His critical works had a profound impact on British literature from the late 19th to the early 20th century. more

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“Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition, only it is frequently less apparent, and we give ourselves but little trouble to discover it.”

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“Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.”

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