There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us. Egerton Brydges More Quotes by Egerton Brydges More Quotes From Egerton Brydges To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul. Egerton Brydges eye sensual soul The glory dies not, and the grief is past. Egerton Brydges glory grief past He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being. Egerton Brydges resources noble lord I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse. Egerton Brydges authorship genius writing
