The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us, (for a brief period, at least) are, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, persons of mere address, perseverance, effrontery—in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.
Horror, detective fiction
Opening remarks of a lecture/critique
c. 1840s
Found in 1 providers: gemini
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