ATDTDA 724... Cf. Dally on tourists

[Glenn Scheper]

Few men have ever impressed their peers so much, or the
general public so little, as Walter Savage Landor.
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This essay contains much that would, if Landor had
only written it in his noble English instead of his only
less noble Latin, have counted among his most interesting
work. He has written, he says, because too much leisure is
prejudicial alike to virtue and to happiness; and he has
published his work in Italy because he desires to avoid
being confounded by those among whom he is sojourning
with the promiscuous crowd of travelling Englishmen
(_quia nolui_ turmalis _esse, nolui opinione hominum cum
cæteris Britannnorum peregrinantium, cujuscumque sint
ordinis, conturbari_). His avowed purpose is the paradoxical
one of pleading for the Latin language as that
proper to be used by all civilized nations for the expression
of their most dignified and durable thoughts. Why
should those be called the dead languages which alone
will never die? Why should any one choose to engrave on
glass when it is open to him to engrave on beryl-stone?
  -- http://www.anders.thulin.name/RAW/Colvin_Landor.utf8
  Untitled (Sidney Colvin: Landor)


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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