Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|             and to some species of literature far more than to others.
 2 Phaedr|       spirit which hung over Greek literature for a thousand years afterwards.
 3 Phaedr|        society and the sentimental literature of the day, alone against
 4 Phaedr|          great an influence on the literature of modern Europe, had no
 5 Phaedr|           his standard. Is not all literature passing into criticism,
 6 Phaedr|        criticism, just as Athenian literature in the age of Plato was
 7 Phaedr|       original power.~Turning from literature and the arts to law and
 8 Phaedr|            in other ages, weary of literature and criticism, of making
 9 Phaedr|           marble exterior of Greek literature was concealed a soul thrilling
10 Phaedr|            ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE.~One of the main purposes
11 Phaedr| interminable marsh, in which Greek literature was soon to disappear. A
12 Phaedr|            the contrast of the old literature and the new was present
13 Phaedr|     decline the Greek language and literature, unlike the Latin, which
14 Phaedr|        recovered.~This monotony of literature, without merit, without
15 Phaedr|       tendencies was favourable to literature. There was no sense of beauty
16 Phaedr|         innumerable rolls of Greek literature.~If we seek to go deeper,
17 Phaedr|            classical Greek art and literature that it had no power of
18 Phaedr|             The character of Greek literature sank lower as time went
19 Phaedr|        They think that the Muse of Literature may transfer herself to
20 Phaedr|         such a decay or decline of literature and of art seriously affects
21 Phaedr|      restore life and youth to the literature of a nation, or at any rate
22 Phaedr|           a greater development of literature than nationality has ever
23 Phaedr|        groundless is the fear that literature will ever die out.~