The rationalism of the higher class strikes them as cynical, and the generation which listens to Wesley must have also a secular literature, which, whether sentimental as with Richardson or representing common sense with Fielding, must at any rate correspond to solid substantial matter-of-fact motives, intelligible to the ordinary briton of the time.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
Across the Channel from the brawny briton is the Frenchman, who, with infinitely more wisdom, begins his day with a cup of coffee and a roll.
"The Myrtle Reed Cook Book"
Myrtle Reed