Do you know the French novels?
there's passion and power for you, if you like such things.

Balzac convinced me that the French language was malleable into poetry.

We are behindhand here in books, and elderly ones seem young to us.

For instance, we have not caught sight yet of 'Moore's Life,' the extracts from which are unpropitious, I think.

I had a fancy, I cannot tell you how it grew, that Moore, though an artificial, therefore inferior, poet, was a most brilliant letter-writer.