Egerton Brydges Quotes

• To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

  Egerton Brydges

  Eye, Soul, Sensual

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• The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

  Egerton Brydges

  Grief, Past, Glory

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. p. 313-14, On the Death of Sir Walter Scott, 1922.

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• He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.

  Egerton Brydges

  Noble, Lord, Resources

  Sir Egerton Brydges (1834). “The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart”, p.47

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• I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

  Egerton Brydges

  Writing, Genius, Authorship

  Sir Egerton Brydges (1824). “Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron”, p.340

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• There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.

  Egerton Brydges

  Book, Mere, Converses

  Sir Egerton Brydges, Robert Pearse Gillies (1813). “The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical, and sentimental essays”, p.143

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