heaven-knows-what-age

Updated: June 11, 2025

If he is of those who talk about "this age of shams," "this age without ideals," "this hysterical age," and this heaven-knows-what-age Then that man, though he reads undisputed classics for twenty hours a day, though he has a memory of steel, though he rivals Porson in scholarship and Sainte-Beuve in judgment, is not receiving from literature what literature has to give.

Arnold Bennett - Literary Taste: How to Form It : With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature

If he is of those who talk about "this age of shams," "this age without ideals," "this hysterical age," and this heaven-knows-what-age Then that man, though he reads undisputed classics for twenty hours a day, though he has a memory of steel, though he rivals Porson in scholarship and Sainte Beuve in judgment, is not receiving from literature what literature has to give.

Arnold Bennett - Literary Taste: How to Form It : With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature