... life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not ... ...n the cellar. What if an equal ado were made about the ornaments of style in literature, and the architects of our bibles spent as much time about the... ...ritten in that Greek or Latin which they knew, but in the select language of literature. They had not learned the nobler dialects of Greece and Rome, ... ...itten were waste paper to them, and they prized instead a cheap contemporary literature. But when the several nations of Europe had acquired distinct ... ...e written languages of their own, sufficient for the purposes of their rising literatures, then first learning revived, and scholars were enabled to dis... ...man’s speech. Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, f... ...w ex ceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell. Even the college bred and... ...and distiller of celestial dews. Who knows in how many unremembered nations’ literatures this has been the Castalian Fountain? or what nymphs presided... ...the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not t...

... deal of him, have studied his sentiments and heard his opinion on subjects of literature and taste; and, upon the whole, I venture to pronounce that ...