I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history... of human speech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The logical English train a scholar as they train an engineer. Oxford is Greek factory, as Wilton mills weave carpet, and Sheffiel...d grinds steel. They know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse; and they draw the greatest amount of benefit from both. The reading men are kept by hard walking, hard riding, and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition, and two days before the examination, do not work but lounge, ride, or run, to be fresh on the college doomsday.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'I said it in Hebrew--I said it in Dutch-- I said it in German and Greek;... But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;... When they spent the public money at a bountiful old rate On ev'ry mistress, pimp, and scamp, at ev'ry noble gate, In the fine old English Tory times;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In those rare days, the press was seldom known to snarl or bark, But sweetly sang of men in pow'r, like any tuneful lark; .../>Grave judges, too, to all their evil deeds were in the dark; And not a man in twenty score knew how to make his mark. Oh the fine old English Tory times;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dule and wae for the order sent our lads to the Border; The English, for ance, by guile won the day:... The Flowers of the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost, The prime o' our land, are cauld in the clay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The populations of Pwllheli, Criccieth, Portmadoc, Borth, Tremadoc, Penrhyndeudraeth,... Were all assembled. Criccieth's mayor addressed them First in good Welsh and then in fluent English,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »