Sir Henry Taylor

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“Give me the critic bred in Nature’s school,
Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
Who feeling’s honest dictates still obeys,
And dares, without a precedent, to praise.”
—Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)

“...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before the wind.”
—Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965)

“Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)