Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages pain; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long sleep,—there is exhibited in its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens.
On Mitford's History of Greece. 1824.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
On Milton. 1825.
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
On Milton. 1825.
Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.[590:1]
On Machiavelli. 1825.
The English Bible,—a book which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
On John Dryden. 1828.