The Literary Life And Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington volume 1
The Literary Life And Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington volume 1
Madden, Richard Robert, 1798-1886
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I hardly know what to make of them. ' " I accounted for it by the perfect seclusion in which great numbers of cultivated people live in our country, who, having neither intrigue, nor fashion, nor twenty other things to occupy their minds, as in England, depend entirely upon books, and consider an author who has given them pleasure as a friend. ' America, ' I said, ' has probably more literary enthusiasts than any country in the world; and there are thousands of romantic minds in the interior of... New Eno-land who know perfectly every writer on this side of the water, and hold them all in affectionate veneration, scarcely conceivable by a sophisticated European. If it were not for such readers, hterature would be the most thankless of vocations ; I, for one, would never write another line. ' " ' And do you think these are the people which write to me? If I could think so, I should be exceedingly happy. A great proportion of the people in England are refined down to such heartlessness ; criticism, private and public, is so much influenced by politics ; that it is really delightful to know there is a more generous tribunal.
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