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Not only phrases to mold, but to group; and masses to separate from one another: another difficult operation.
Tacitus. He slows his pace to hold attention, to make it lasting and motionless.
Tacitus. And [he] seizes attention to the point of doing violence to it.
But they spoke to eager readers, and we to jaded readers.
At first everything in prose inclined toward the familiarities of conversation, all dignity of phrase remaining reserved for verse; afterward...
Lacretelle. ascitium ingenium. It is wit come from elsewhere, which lies wholly in memory, in the inclination and aptitude for beautiful imitations; but his natural disposition belies it.
An important fact. Education can correct morals only through manners, inclinations only through actions. For, moreover, it does not change the natural disposition.
January […]2.
Greek and Latin and French. — Chateaubriand Hebrew and Greek.
And observe that in all true meditation a rest naturally follows each movement.
How the natural is not the same in every century, and how what appears artificial is not always so, etc. The things of the Soul.
January 23.
... to readers who have experienced other pleasures, more vivid and more...
— and those times (in literature) when one can guard against bad imitations only through much study and care.
It is not beauty but pleasure that you seek in writings.
That is because they prefer what gives pleasure to their mind to what would give it uprightness, elevation, strength, life, and, so to speak, virtue.
This is indeed, in matters of taste, a kind of detached part of that corruption in matters of morals which makes one prefer the convenient to the useful and pleasure to virtue.
Minds are still the same, but, nourished on other foods, they have known other flavors.
That severity makes parents more tender. One loves more those by whom one is feared (with a respectful fear).