Not who you're looking for? Others named Alfred Austin: British writer and poet (1835–1913)
“Who loves his country never forfeits heaven.”
“No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.”
“[A]mbition should be spoken of as not the last, but the first infirmity of noble minds, of which they gradually purge themselves as they grow more mature.”
“Hospitality should be accidental, spontaneous, and impulsive, not pre-arranged and calculated.”
“[W]henever one wants to cite something wise and true, one has to go either to the ancients or to the eighteenth century for it.”
“The most generous of critics, if he is to be discriminating and just, cannot, let me say again, allow that any verse which is profoundly obscure or utterly unmusical, no matter how intellectual in substance, deserves the appellation of poetry. But on a very thin thread of meaning poetry, or a very fair imitation of it, may be hung by the aid of musical sound.”
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