Watts-Dunton
Americannoun
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Eventually, he retired to the country for his health under the care of a proper Victorian solicitor-scholar named Theodore Watts-Dunton.
From Time Magazine Archive
The almost spontaneous manner in which mining laws came into existence, and the ready obedience which the miners yielded to them, show how correct is the view taken by Mr. Watts-Dunton.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs
Watts-Dunton could not understand the value of impassioned prose or its right to be called poetry.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
Watts-Dunton cannot remain our leading authority on poetry.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
These things certainly outweigh the trivial incident which Mr. Watts-Dunton recalls.
From The Vagabond in Literature by Rickett, Arthur
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