They miss the poetical flow, the dramatic verisimilitude, the life and variety of the characters, the dialectic subtlety, the Attic purity, the luminous order, the exquisite urbanity; instead of which they find tautology, obscurity, self-sufficiency, sermonizing, rhetorical declamation, pedantry, egotism, uncouth forms of sentences, and peculiarities in the use of words and idioms.

They are unable to discover any unity in the patched, irregular structure.

The speculative element both in government and education is superseded by a narrow economical or religious vein.

The grace and cheerfulness of Athenian life have disappeared; and a spirit of moroseness and religious intolerance has taken their place.

The charm of youth is no longer there; the mannerism of age makes itself unpleasantly felt.