It should be my literary specialty to rail against literature.

The reading public should pay me for telling them that they oughtn't to read.

I must think it over.' 'Carlyle has anticipated you,' threw in Alfred.
'Yes, but in an antiquated way.

I would base my polemic on the newest philosophy.' He developed the idea facetiously, whilst John regarded him as he might have watched a performing monkey.
'There again! your new philosophy!' exclaimed the invalid.

'Why, it isn't even wholesome stuff, the kind of reading that most of you force on the public.