...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the Works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse,— When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation I am almost ashamed to have spoken...

...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges bf idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous...

...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have...

...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have...

...gratify, the taste of society has become so vitiated and so accustomed to gross stimulants, such as " frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies,...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse," as to require the counteraction of some simpler and more primitive food, •which should restore to...

...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.— When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have spoken...

...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespear and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.— When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to have spoken...

...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse." We allow to a considerable extent the correctness of this reasoning, but believe it insufficient. We...

...The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakspeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and...Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.—When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed...

...the stories, the speeches, the words, the sentences (which are indeed of a breathless length),—and yet, awful to relate, it is only the third part "...Wordsworth himself I consider less a moulding spirit of the jjge A than"a pervertedjjrodjjc.tipn of it. He began to write at the"era^" when men were wearied with...