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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.
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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every…
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When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer…
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature…
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet…
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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction…
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Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
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To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance…
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The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving…
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But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began…
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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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I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina.…
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I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was.…
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A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show…
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I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.
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