Leslie Stephen was an English essayist, critic, and biographer, born on November 28, 1832, and died on February 22, 1904. He is renowned for his literary criticism and his biography of Thomas Carlyle. A prominent figure of the Victorian era, Stephen's work significantly influenced the evolution of modern literary criticism.
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“Lying may be necessary, but should always be painful.”
Source: The English Utilitarians: Volume III
“He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.”
Source: The Playground of Europe
“Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.”
Source: Hours in a Library
Source: An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays
Source: Sir Thomas Browne. Jonathan Edwards. Horace Walpole. Dr. Johnson's writings. Crabbe. William Hazlitt. Disraeli's novels. Massinger
“The poet should touch our heart by showing his own”
Source: Hours in a Library: Charlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley. Gray and his school. Sterne. Country books. George Eliot. Autobiography. Carlyle's ethics. The State trials. Coleridge
“A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.”
Source: Samuel Johnson
Source: The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen
“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.”
Source: An Agnostic's Apology
Source: Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking
Source: An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays
Source: The Playground of Europe
Source: Studies of a Biographer
Source: Studies of a Biographer
“The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.”
Source: Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking