He could see no good in republicans or agnostics, and none in Scotland or France.

Not that the phrase "imperfect sympathy," which expresses by implication the romantic critic's point of view, would have appealed to him.

When Dr.Johnson did not like people the fault was in them, not in him; a ruthless objectivity is part of the classic equipment.

He failed, too, because he could neither understand nor appreciate poetry which concerned itself with the sensations that come from external nature.

Nature was to him a closed book, very likely for a purely physical reason.