_He calculated upon the probable necessity of its enjoyment_.") The spirit is the silliest and most ignorant Philhellenism--all the beauty, virtue, wisdom, of the ancient Greeks being supposed to be inherited by their mongrel successors of the early nineteenth century.

An English and a Turkish lover dispute Ida's affection or possession.

There are the elaborate pseudo-erudite notes which one has learnt to associate chiefly with Moore.

The authoress boasts in her preface that she "has already written almost as many volumes as she has years," and that she has hardly ever corrected her proofs.

Perhaps this silliness will make some think her not more an example of the savagery of contemporary criticism than a justification thereof.
It was in fact not only brutal man who objected to the preposterous excesses of pseudo-romance: and serious or jocular parables were taken up against it, if not before _Northanger Abbey_ was written, long before it was published.