
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 170.
Vol. 1, p. 203
A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 170.
“All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.”
Tout ce qui n'est point prose, est vers; et tout ce qui n'est point vers, est prose.
Act II, sc. iv
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)
Source: 1950s–1960s, The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching, 1964, p. 1.
“Literature is analysis after the event.”
Quoted in Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain, ed. Michael Horovitz (1969): Afterwords, section 2
1790s, Goya's announcement about 'Los Caprichos', 6 Febr. 1799
“All savageness is a sign of weakness.”
Omnis enim ex infirmitate feritas est.
De Vita Beata (On the Happy Life): cap. 3, line 4
Alternate translation: All cruelty springs from weakness. (translator unknown)
As quoted in Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners (1864), Harper & brothers, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, p. 174 (in the essay The Sympathetic Temperment).
Moral Essays
Henry Purcell, Edward Taylor (1843) in "Introduction" to, King Arthur: an opera in 5 acts, written by John Dryden. p. 3; Introduction; Cited in: James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch (1852), Fraser's Magazine, Vol. 45, p. 198
“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”
"Poetry and Literature" (1941), as translated in Selected Writings (1957).
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 154