Nothing that has been and has died out, will be revived. The skeleton, an osseous Apollo, will remain, and that is all.
— Thomas Gordon Hake
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A poem, of whatever length, should start vividly, so as to wind up the ear and set the mind ticking.
It may be boasted that free-trade in physic came before free-trade in corn, and from that time medical science began to flourish in this country.
I thought no one ever could paint a woman's eyes like Rossetti. There was a softness, a delicacy, a life, a soul in them, never seen elsewhere, but in living beings, and that how rarely!
The more a writer deviates from simplicity, the less sincere he appears.
I remember well the time when no gentleman was supposed to smoke; the habit was fit only for the vulgarian.
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