Isaac Disraeli
Isaac Disraeli
Isaac D'Israeliwas a British writer, scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his essays, his associations with other men of letters, and as the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli...
study influence glory
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.
design execution should
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.
iron age golden
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
latin greek quiver
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers...
luxury age pleasure
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
judging style great-work
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
book design secret
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.
genius fortune companion
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
philosophy imagination enthusiasm
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
feelings events genius
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
contemplative-life contemplation contemplative
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
abuse quotations
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
real men golden
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
reading age delight
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.