There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.
There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they … - Egerton Brydges
There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they …
- Egerton Brydges
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul. - Egerton Brydges
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
The glory dies not, and the grief is past. - Egerton Brydges
The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being. - Egerton Brydges
He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse. - Egerton Brydges
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.
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