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"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


The other is Mary Wollstonecraft. THE great lights are sinking fast. Darwin ...

The other is Mary Wollstonecraft.

THE great lights are sinking fast. Darwin has gone, Carlyle and Alan Eliot.

Browning, Newman and Tennyson are nearing their term. So long and steadily had they shone that it was not easy to think of the world under other constellations.

We are in such at twilight, such a pause again, as we observed sixty years before.

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But what meteor is this proceeding with as much noise as light ...

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The success of the old public schools for their own purposes, the ...

The success of the old public schools for their own purposes, the downward and outward extension of their notions and observances, had given this ideal a wide diffu

But the larger and freer upbringing of the earlier Victorians made them ...

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