As soon as he had left the room and walked into the air, he knew that he would never return and for the first time his fears lifted. It was a spring morning, and when he walked into Severndale Park he...
Name for Manchester was Mamucio, after the
You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cry up as the Glory of this Age is a Proteus and Cameleon that changes its Shape almost in every Man:...
There was no grandeur here, no sublimity, only weariness and gloom.
There then followed a period of disturbance and danger. There were many lords in this land who longed to be king, and who were prepared to do battle for the crown of England. So Merlin visited the Arc...
Sir it did not belong to me to examine the matter, since I knew full well that I should not be a judge of the matter for it belongs only to a judge to study illam Sacre Scripture clausam where Holy Jo...
In the old wild days of the world there was a king of England known as Uther Pendragon; he was a dragon in wrath as well as in power.
I can recall quite clearly the journey from Omaha to San Francisco which I made with the opera troupe; God had created the world in less time than it took us to travel across America.
Everybody needed news. Everybody wanted news. News was known as ‘hot’. It was a society of conversation so that rumour and gossip passed quickly through the streets. At times of more than usual excite...
By the time of Athelstan the country was divided into shires, hundreds and vills or townships, precisely in order to expedite taxation. The shires of England were unique, their boundaries lasting for...
The great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page
Lord, decked with jewels, sitting at the head of a table. It is a poetry of assonance
It has been observed that Londoners became more extravagant in the presence of Charles Dickens, so that they might appear more Dickensian, so
From what Purse are we building these Churches, Walter?From the Imposicion on Coles.And are the Coles not the blackest Element, which with their Smoak hide the Sunne?Certainly they feed the Fires of t...
VANNBRUGGHE. But the bounds of the Mind are yet unknown: we form our Judgments too much on what has been done without knowing what might be done. Originals must soar into the region of Liberty.DYER....
Una de las grandes maldiciones del género humano es la de temer cuando no hay nada que temer, contestó. Este ánimo supersticioso y amigo de los presagios desarma los corazones de los hombres, ablanda...
To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.
There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling bac...
The writing of history is often another way of defining chaos.
The house of the Plantagenets, from Henry II to Richard III himself, was brimming with blood. In their lust for power the members of the family turned upon one another. King John murdered, or caused t...