“At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world with the indifference of a condemned man.” — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image