terature
as in other matters it is well to unite as many diverse elements as may
be: that the individual writer or artist, certainly, is to be estimated
by the number of graces he combines, and his power of interpenetrating
them in a given work. To discriminate schools, of art, of literature,
is, of course, part of the obvious business of literary criticism: but,
in the work of literary production, it is easy to be overmuch occupied
concerning them. For, in truth, the legitimate contention is, not of
one age or school of literary art against another, but of all
successive schools alike, against the stupidity which is dead to the
substance, and the vulgarity which is dead to form.

NOTES

241. +Transliteration: ainei de palaion men oinon, anthea d' hymnon
neoteron. Translation: "Praise wine for its age, but the song in first
bloom. Pindar, Odes, Book O, Poem 9, Line 47.

244. +Transliteration: kosmiotes. Liddell and Scott definition:
"propriety, decorum, orderly behavior."

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