#lis

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#became #big #climb #closer #deliberate

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english language #famous #great #james

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#education #english #english literature #general #general knowledge

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#adultery #after #allow #between #consequently

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#both #english #english literature #extraordinary #fiction

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#century #defects #english #great #index

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#began #believe #bible #ceased #discover

The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing. ↗

— Thomas Hearne

#english #laughing #race #weeping #worst

And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#going #had #jihad #just #know

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#declared #group #i #kidnapped #know