FEINBERG/WHITMAN
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NOTES and NOTEBOOKS

NOTES--Reference

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Carlyle, Thomas--quotation

[*See
notes 
Nov 10 
1888 *]       
[British the English Scotch]
 (article on Novalis) 
"No good book", says Carlyle- "No 
good book - or good thing of any sort - 
shows its best face first.  Nay the
commonest quality in a true work
of Art, if its excellence have any
depth and compass, is that at first
sight it occasions a certain disappointment; 
perhaps, even, mingled
with its undeniable beauty, a certain
feeling of aversion."
[article on Novalis]

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