Egerton Brydges Quotes

United Kingdom, Biblical Scholar
November 30, 1762 – September, 8, 1837.

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

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

Egerton Brydges
- Soul
- Eye
- Delight

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

Egerton Brydges
- Lord
- Resources
- Noble
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
- Book
- Values
- Converses
The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

Egerton Brydges
- Past
- Grief
- Glory