long-extinguished

Updated: May 16, 2025

There is nothing modern about him. Emerson's writing has a cold cheerless glitter, like the new furniture in a warehouse, which will come of use by and by; Hawthorne's, the rich, subdued colour of furniture in a Tudor mansion-house which has winked to long-extinguished fires, which has been toned by the usage of departed generations.

Alexander Smith - Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country