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• Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.
• It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every…
• When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer…
• One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature…
• But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
• The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet…
• But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction…
• Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
• To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance…
• The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving…
• But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began…
• The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,…

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