The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

What you look at hard seems to look at you.

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.