If the perspective of time were not a necessary condition of romance, the present age would be deemed as fertile in the wonderful as any which have preceded it; but this obvious truth, though sometimes acknowledged, is seldom realized.


The optimist (G.P. Putnam, 1850)

Henry Theodore Tuckerman Quotes

If the perspective of time were not a necessary condition of romance, the present age would be deemed as fertile in the wonderful as any which have...

If the perspective of time were not a necessary condition of romance, the present age would be deemed as fertile in the wonderful as any which have...

If the perspective of time were not a necessary condition of romance, the present age would be deemed as fertile in the wonderful as any which have...

If the perspective of time were not a necessary condition of romance, the present age would be deemed as fertile in the wonderful as any which have...