Isaac D'Israeli - The literary character (1818)

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An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age

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After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

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Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.

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A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

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The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

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