[IMC-FR] companionship field trip

[Emery Good]

He wasread with passionate delight by some; others he left cold andlustreless.
But themere fact of their existence had a centralising influence.
The drawing-room is the placewhere a great deal of reading is done nowadays, and the essays ofMr.
It isa barren and exhausted age, we repeat; we must look back with envyto the past. He has clearly made the best of hiscircumstances and not the worst. And if you can forget your sex altogether, he will say,so much the better; a writer has none. Beerbohm, inhis way, is perfect, but it is not a big way. Passages in Far Awayand Long Ago will undoubtedly go to posterity entire. Among his readers were people of the most oppositeages and sympathies. All honour, of course, to those whohave sacrificed their immortality to set the house in order. Great critics, if they are not themselves great poets,are bred from the profusion of the age. The essay must lap us about and draw its curtainacross the world.
But themere fact of their existence had a centralising influence.
But while we are gratified, I, thatunruly partner in the human fellowship, is reduced to despair. A greatcritic, they say, is the rarest of beings. As a feat of skill it iswell worth watching.
And if you can forget your sex altogether, he will say,so much the better; a writer has none. As a feat of skill it iswell worth watching. But if it would be foolish to attempt to confine Mr. He must skim thesurface of thought and dilute the strength of personality. Yet it is true that the essayist is the most sensitiveof all writers to public opinion.
It goes on, but already we are bemused with sound and neither feelnor hear.
Thanking them humbly, we cannot help reflecting that it was notalways so.
Beerbohm,knowing that, come September or May, we shall sit down with themand talk.
We must knowwhat we mean when we say that they can write and give us pleasure. But the essay is alive; thereis no reason to despair.
Passages in Far Awayand Long Ago will undoubtedly go to posterity entire. 
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