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...think back to the eighteenth century or the Italian Renaissance, it is obvious that in our day and generation, the Classics are somewhat in eclipse. But there have been times when the clouds were even more thickly about them. As Odysseus remarked to his soul, "Bear it, brave heart; thou hast borne harder things than this." To those who know what treasures are laid up in the literatures of Greece and Rome, what opportunities for a culture at once nobly aristocratic and broadly human, there is no question that however long deferred, the day of the ancients will come again...
...license of the court of the Medicis. After puffing up the stairs, admittedly the stout English gentleman again, a great Flemish tapestry room would transform him into a portly burgher. Yet the sight of an Elizabethan fireplace would make him the happiest of all. Sinking naturally into the nearest eighteenth century chair, despite signs to the contrary, he would muse away an hour culled from England's past...
...period without some acquaintance with its philosophy, but to find its philosophy one must turn to its literature, and not merely to the literature of the professed philosophers. Great as Locke and Hume are, they do not begin to sum up in their pages all the philosophical thought of Eighteenth Century England. Their importance is beyond question, but could one get anything like a complete picture of that era without some consideration of Addison, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Adam Smith? Man has always expressed his noblest thoughts in the noblest literature of which he was capable...
Edward D. Snyder G. '11: The Celtic Revival in English Literature 1760-1800. A study of a movement among eighteenth-century English men of letters who were united by a common desire to infuse into English poetry the mythology, the history, and the literary treasures of the ancient Celts
...There can be no compromise with lawlessness. . . . When the people do not want the Eighteenth Amendment they can repeal...