Written nearly a hundred and thirty years after the supposed events which it narrates, this story is damned by its Circumstantiality.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
The conditions which define its origin must be stated with equal definiteness and Circumstantiality."
"John Dewey's logical theory"
Delton Thomas Howard
Any solution of Pope's virulence, and of the master's bitter retaliation, even as a solution, is so far entitled to attention; apart from which the mere straightforwardness of this man's story, and its minute Circumstantiality, weigh greatly in its favor.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey