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Egerton Brydges

Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet was an English bibliographer and genealogist. He was also Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1812 to 1818.

November 30, 1762 - September 8, 1837

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I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

Egerton Brydges

Egerton Brydges

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.

Egerton Brydges

Egerton Brydges

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us. — © Egerton Brydges

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.

Egerton Brydges

Egerton Brydges

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

Egerton Brydges

Egerton Brydges

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

Egerton Brydges

Egerton Brydges

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