NORTH SHORE BREEZE 5 
AN AGE OF LITERARY ART 
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sentence, until English ‘literature 
well night lost its freedom and 
force. Letters were cultivated with 
great assiduity and poetry became 
a fine art. Sermons, histories, es- 
Says were finished to a faultless de- 
gree of nicety, but they lacked color 
and life. There was a studied con- 
formity to classic ideals, but there 
was no great passion; women who 
were unmoved by Desdemona’s 
tragic fate could weep over Clarissa 
Harlowe through three prosy tomes. 
There was everywhere a dull me- 
diocrity of literary workmanship, 
without inspiration or spontaneity. 
The best writers were not creators, 
they were mere artists. 
But it is true, and this must be 
allowed after all criticisms are 
made, these men were in many in- 
stances artists of consummate taste 
and skill; if they wanted intensity 
and breadth and power, they ex- 
celled in finish; they were masters 
of detail; they wrought the  lan- 
guage to a high degree of perfec- 
tion; they were without rivals in 
minute criticism and verbal precis- 
ion; they were adepts in syntax and 
philology. Men like Addison, 
Steele, Swift and Johnson in prose, 
and Dryden, Pope, Gray and Gold- 
smith in rhyme, were _ potentates 
who in their day ruled the world of 
literature with a regal hand, and 
their deftness in shaping language 
to thought has hardly been © sur- 
passed from their day to this. One 
is unapproached as a master of sat- 
ire, another was a prince of critics, 
a third still overawes us with his 
ponderous dicta, and a fourth 
touched nothing that he did not 
adorn. Lacking as the 18th century 
writers of English were in imagina- 
tion and invention, they were mas- 
ters of the art of expression. It was 
the Silver Age of English literature 
and taste; an age in which writers 
studied not only men, but manners, 
and in which the literary world was 
in the fashion. It was essentially 
(1) an age of light literature, as be- 
came a polite society; (2) an age of 
satirical literature, as became a so- 
ciety which lived upon discussion of 
scandals and follies; and (3) an 
age of artificial literature, in which 
feeling had given place to. senti- 
ment, and thought to literary polish. 
Netvithstanding the robust influ- 
itr «i Johnson and Reynolds, it 
vas in age of dilettanteism in lit- 
erat. re and art. 
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