And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index,... and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own ... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances f...or many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining autho...rs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in w...hich they are more ambitious to excel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Age appears to be best in four things--old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a buil...ding, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, alack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and alteration; some words go off, a...nd become obsolete; others are taken in, and by degrees grow into common use; or the same word is inverted to a new sense or notion, which in tract of time makes an observable change in the air and features of a language, as age makes in the lines and mien of a face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom "charitable" souls ke...ep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »