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 work, leaving again but a bright fragment of perplexing shape and splendour; and now but lately the biographer of Dickens likewise has left us cheated of the ardent and grateful hopes that were fixed on the completion of the first adequate or trustworthy Life of Swift. Not one of these nor of all their generation has left or yet will leave a nobler memory, and it may well be that in the eyes of Englishmen yet unborn not one will be found to have left a nobler memorial, than the unforgotten life and the imperishable works of Charlotte Brontë.