<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358469" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On a Vulgar Error</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">No. It's an impudent falsehood. Men did not <br>Invariably think the newer way Prosaic<br>mad, inelegant, or what not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was the first pointed arch esteemed a blot <br>Upon the church? Did anybody say How <br>modern and how ugly? They did not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Plate-armour, or windows glazed, or verse fire-hot <br>With rhymes from France, or spices from Cathay, <br>Were these at first a horror? They were not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If, then, our present arts, laws, houses, food <br>All set us hankering after yesterday, <br>Need this be only an archaising mood?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why, any man whose purse has been let blood <br>By sharpers, when he finds all drained away <br>Must compare how he stands with how he stood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If a quack doctor's breezy ineptitude <br>Has cost me a leg, must I forget straightway <br>All that I can't do now, all that I could?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, when our guides unanimously decry <br>The backward glance, I think we can guess why.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clive+Staples+Lewis">Clive Staples Lewis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358469" data-title="On a Vulgar Error de Clive Staples Lewis" data-description="No. It's an impudent falsehood. Men did not Invariably think the newer way Prosaic mad, inelegant, or what not. Was the first pointed arch esteemed a blot Upon the church? Did anybody say How modern and how ugly? They did not. Plate-armour, o..."></div> </div> </div>

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