but Charles Reade, an artist, a scholar, a man with a true sense of beauty, raging and roaring over the abuses of contemporary life like a common pamphleteer or a sensational journalist, is really a sight for the angels to weep over.
a writer or publisher of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist
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a writ-er or pub-lish-er of pamphlets, a sec·ond-rate jour-nal-ist