Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? T...hat Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral;... I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lo...st there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, change ...which suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet... To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Firmness yclept in heroes, kings and seamen, That is, when they succeed; but greatly blamed... As obstinacy, both in men and women, Whene'er their triumph pales, or star is tamed -- And 'twill perplex the casuist in morality To fix the due bounds of this dangerous quality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »