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the small, vibrant coterie of Apostles to which he belonged at Cambridge

This was the England of espaliers and velvet lawns

He was the grandson of a Prime Minister and cousin or nephew to a covey of military, diplomatic, and ecclesiastical worthies.

Cioran's stoic élitism, his rejection of meliorism à l'américaine

they flatter the writer with the tenebrous incense of the oracular