I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.
I still prefer going to the classical writers, the modernists and the nineteenth century writers. Much of what has been done since then has just been repetition. A lot of it is marvelous but the forms haven't changed.
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.