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Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

Matthew Arnold

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Matthew Arnold
Age: 65 †
Born: 1822
Born: December 24
Died: 1888
Died: April 15
Journalist
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Poet
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Laleham
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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