Sublime

The Darwinians have this mark of fighters for a lost cause, that they are perpetually appealing to sentiment and to authority.

there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

Human nature is hunted and has fled into sanctuary.

the ancient and often barbaric kind of humour that goes by the name of the pun.

A discovery is an incurable disease;

but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave.

He was the voice in England of this humane intoxication and expansion, this encouraging of anybody to be anything. His best books are a carnival of liberty,

She took the opportunity to rein in what must have seemed syntactic and figural excesses in the work. In a passage about the invalid’s attitude to poetry, the 1930 version state

Missing the point is a very fine art;