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Title: Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)
Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs

Author: John Morley

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Language: English

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CRITICAL
MISCELLANIES

BY

JOHN MORLEY

VOL. III.

ESSAY 5: ON PATTISON'S MEMOIRS

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1904

ON PATTISON'S MEMOIRS.

His influence 133

Industry and spirit his best credentials 135

Youth 136

Went as a freshman to Oriel in 1832 139

Affected by a profound weakness of will and character 140

The motto of his life--'Quicquid hic operis fiat poenitet' 142

Newman 145

Mr. Goldwin Smith 161

_Life of Milton_ 169

Contributes five biographies to the new edition of the
_Encyclopaedia Britannica_ 171

Delivers a lecture on Books and Critics, 1877 171

In 1871 and 1872 published editions of the _Essay on Man_
and _The Satires and Epistles of Pope_ 172

ON PATTISON'S MEMOIRS.[1]

To reckon the subject of this volume among leading minds who have
stamped a deep influence on our generation, is not possible even to the
friendliest partiality. That was not his position, and nobody could be
less likely than he would himself have been to claim it. Pattison
started no new problem. His name is associated with no fertile
speculation, and with no work of the first degree of importance. Nor was
he any more intended for a