Francis Turner Palgrave
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Biography
Francis Turner Palgrave was a British critic, anthologist and poet.
"This little Collection differs, it is believed, from others in the attempt made to include in it all the best original lyrical pieces and songs in our language, by writers not living, and none besides the best. The Editor will regard as his fittest readers those who love poetry so well, that he can offer them nothing not already known and valued."
"When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely."
"Follow, O follow!—and we follow"
"The monument outlasting bronze was promised well by bards of old."
"Our hope is less to last through Art than deeper searching of the heart, than broader range of uttered truth."
"Shakespeare's stage must hold the glass to every age."