If ever there is in one column a pretence of higher teaching, it is made laughable by the base tendency of all the rest.

The newspaper has supplanted the book; every gross-minded scribbler who gets a square inch of space in the morning journal has a more respectful hearing than Shakespeare.

These writers are tradesmen, and with all their power they cry up the spirit of trade.

Till the influence of the newspaper declines--the newspaper as we now know it--our state will grow worse.
Grail was silent.

Egremont had worked himself to a fervour which showed itself in his unsteady hands and tremulous lips.
'I had not meant to speak of this yet,' he continued.