In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, alack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?
ATTRIBUTION:
Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), British illustrator, writer. The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser, or Under the Hill, dedicatory epistle (1907).
