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Phineas Finn

CHAPTER XIV
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It was Mr.
Kennedy, the old man, who was first called Loughlinter.

That is Linn Castle, and they lived there for hundreds of years.

But these Highlanders, with all that is said of their family pride, have forgotten the Mackenzies already, and are quite proud of their rich landlord." "That is unpoetical," said Phineas.
"Yes;--but then poetry is so usually false.

I doubt whether Scotland would not have been as prosaic a country as any under the sun but for Walter Scott;--and I have no doubt that Henry V owes the romance of his character altogether to Shakspeare." "I sometimes think you despise poetry," said Phineas.
"When it is false I do.

The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true.


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