There were 10,000 stout fellows, as Daniel Defoe had written earlier in the century in The Behaviour of Servants, who would spend their last drop of blood against Popery but 'do not know whether it be a man or a horse.'
A. Fraser, The king and the catholics (2018), 3
A digital form of the sadly lost fashion for copying out memorable passages from texts. I kept losing my actual book.
Friday, 26 October 2018
Friday, 19 October 2018
The model for a husband
A Member of Parliament, with a small house near Eaton Square, with a moderate income, and a liking for committees, who would write a pamphlet once every two years, and read Dante critically during the recess, was, to her, the model for a husband.
A. Trollope, The Belton Estate (1865), 104
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