But, unlike those, English fiction was to rise again revivified, to show the world centuries later its native strength by setting examples to all competitors. - Vol. 1

This catalogue of utopian fiction - and it is not much more - suffices to show, at any rate, how obvious an instrument fiction had now become for purposes widely removed from those of pure art. - Vol. 2

But, as it is, the form Swift chose for his chief polemical and satirical works, and especially the overwhelming force of his realism, which stamps even wild improbabilities on our imagination and renders them for ever ineffaceable, is further evidence that the appointed hour had come, and that whatever shape the contemporary novel took, it would have to be a truthful and cogent study of realities. - Vol. 3