S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.
Sir Samuel Garth
The critics of a more exalted taste may discover such beauties in the ancient poetry as may escape the comprehension of us pigmies of a more limited genius.
Judgment without vivacity of imagination is too heavy, and like a dress without fancy; and the last without the first is too gay, and but all trimming.
One is under no more obligation to extol everything he finds in the author he translates than a painter is to make every face that sits to him handsome.
