Felton

Cited as Felton. — 18 quotations

Always use the most correct editions.

Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock.

Not only the finest gentleman of his time, but one of the finest scholars.

Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.

The critics have been very free in their censures.

Easiness and handsome address in writing.

The illumination which a bright genius giveth to his work.

I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.

The list of the lieutenancy of our metropolis.

No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.

In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull.

[The use of images] in orations and poetry is to move pity or terror.

The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations.

False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood.

Our troops beat an army in plain fight.

The purest gold must be run and washed.

Mr. Duke may be mentioned under the double capacity of a poet and a divine.

They can write up to the dignity and character of the authors.