"Utterable" Quotes from Famous Books
... to himself and his own ways. I have Books; a complete Edition of Voltaire, {302b} for one Book, in which I read for use, or for idleness oftenest,—getting into endless reflexions over it, mostly of a sad and not very utterable nature. I find V. a 'gentleman,' living in a world partly furnished with such; and that there are now almost no 'gentlemen' (not quite none): this is one great head of my reflexions, to which there is no visible ... — Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald |