H. B. Marriott Watson

“ It is in all ways a pitiful reflection that they are gone. But just as a noise from your hiding-place within the copse must have sent them all into an instant dissolution, so too at some big roar in the world's progress have they vanished o' nights for ever, and only silence now holds the long valleys. ”

“ The Greeks, on the other hand, showed a far more fastidious taste in conjecture. Knowing of nothing more delightful than themselves, they proceeded to build up a heaven upon this basis, withdrawing therefrom the least idyllic elements of their own nature. ”

“ The gods and the goddesses, with the various nymphs and resident deities of earth, though a charming society, cunningly and elegantly devised, come too near our human selves to keep their necessary dignity. ”

“ THE DEAD IMMORTALS THE creatures of our fathers' fancy have long since taken flight from the woods and meadows of our land, leaving no vestige upon their once familiar habitations. The whole length of this island, heretofore populous with dainty presences, lies now forlorn and empty in the possession of inferior hands. ”

“ For the more part their work was evil like their persons, and you could not but feel that they were happiest torturing some individual enemy out of his wits. they were potent enough, it is true, and had an admirable gift of in corporeality which must have served their masters at odd times; but their grotesque and ingenious personalities put them out of human sympathy. One could never have been quite secure with them; while they lasted, society must have ever been within a pinch of chaos. ”