He is however hailed as the legitimate restorer of that taste in binding, which delighted the purchasers in the augustan age of book-collecting.
"A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two"
Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Scott praised the augustan writers as warmly as Jeffrey did, but he was more hospitable to the newer literary impulse.
"Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature"
Margaret Ball
A loquacious person-he is one of your cherished "novel"-writers, by the way, if that be indeed a Novel in which there is nowhere any pretence at novelty-once assured me that he could never reflect without swelling on the greatness of the age in which he lived, an age the mighty civilisation of which he likened to the augustan and Periclean.
"Prince Zaleski"
M.P. Shiel