The great British Library--an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most o...f which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or "pure English, undefiled" wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, wit...h all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep forever. Never will I wake these echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we were doing this in the Falklands they would love it. It's part of our heritage. The British have always been fighting wars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democr...atic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But among all our Methods of moving Pity or Terror, there is none so absurd and barbarous, and what more exposes us to the Contemp...t and Ridicule of our Neighbours, than that dreadful butchering of one another, which is so very frequent upon the English Stage. To delight in seeing Men stabbed, poisoned, racked, or impaled, is certainly the Sign of a cruel Temper: And as this is often practised before the British Audience, several French Criticks, who think these are grateful Spectacles to us, take Occasion from them to represent us a People that delight in Blood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If this creature is a murderer, then so are we all. This snake has killed one British soldier; we have killed many. This is not mu...rder, gentlemen. This is war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is very considerably smaller than Australia and British Somaliland put together. As things stand at present there is nothing mu...ch the Texans can do about this, and ... they are inclined to shy away from the subject in ordinary conversation, muttering defensively about the size of oranges.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is part of a British man's constitution. His thoughts and beauties ar...e so spread abroad that one touches them every where, one is intimate with him by instinct.--No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays, without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was a sweet view--sweet to the eye and the mind. British verdure, British culture, British comfort, seen under a sun bright, wi...thout being oppressive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »