Christopher Vilmar teaches English literature at Salisbury University. More can be found about my professional responsibilities and interests here, if you’re interested. (There’s a link there that will bring you back here, because I’m thorough like that.)
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About Christopher Vilmar | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
A transition from an author’s book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.–Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, no. 14 (Saturday, May 5, 1750)
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