George Darley — a remark

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“Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.”

A sharp dismissal of mere fashionable taste · Introduction to Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (1862 edition)

About George Darley

George Darley

December 1795–23 November 1846

George Darley was born in Dublin in December 1795 and died in London on 23 November 1846. He belongs among those gifted nineteenth-century writers whose lives complicate the comforting assumption that talent naturally finds its public. During his lifetime he was respected by a small number of discerning…

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