Medievalists/late Nineteenth Century

Famous quotes containing the words nineteenth century, late, nineteenth and/or century:

“Posterity—the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism—grows ever harder to conceive.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Ah! late I spoke to silent throngs,
And now their hour is come.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)