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The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Age: 65 †
Born: 1803
Born: December 23
Died: 1869
Died: October 12
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