Friday, 26 October 2018

would spend their last drop of blood against Popery but 'do not know whether it be a man or a horse.'

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

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