But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

Broadmindedness is the result of flattening highmindedness out