Heh, based on this I am a fan of Bissett :) I don't think I can argue about any of this!
Admitting to the full the badness of his verses
LOL!
this great general and able administrator altogether wanted that earnest and undeviating love of truth which leads a man to a patient, laborious, and discriminating, as well as honest and candid investigation of the evidence
...yeah, I'm not going to argue with this point at all :P
he condenses into a few words, which have the appearance of flowing from his pen only casually and as if en passant to a subject more worthy of attention, a sarcasm which carries within it pages, nay, volumes of reprobation.
hee! Well, I'm also not going to argue that Fritz can cut with words, omg.
Re: Fritz as a writer: an early Victorian take
Admitting to the full the badness of his verses
LOL!
this great general and able administrator altogether wanted that earnest and undeviating love of truth which leads a man to a patient, laborious, and discriminating, as well as honest and candid investigation of the evidence
...yeah, I'm not going to argue with this point at all :P
he condenses into a few words, which have the appearance of flowing from his pen only casually and as if en passant to a subject more worthy of attention, a sarcasm which carries within it pages, nay, volumes of reprobation.
hee! Well, I'm also not going to argue that Fritz can cut with words, omg.