> ... Happy was Isaiah, who had no biographer! Unhappy, Jeremiah, about whom we know too much. Amos again: what a noble figure! Poor Hosea, the type specimen of Nosy Parker! If one-tenth the attention had been linguistic not novelistic; it appears that there's no reason whatever to think Hosea and his wife, Gomer, were not an entirely happy, faithful pair....
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Brian Small

"A sterner conscience and a friendlier home." --- W. B. Yeats In I.A. Richards's _So Much Nearer_ p. 150~ "The Future of Poetry" p. 151~ Try it again: "t...