Sublime

For us in England something will have perished which our fathers valued all the more because they hardly troubled to name it;

the English went forward through the wood that is called Creçy, and stamped it with their seal for the second time, in the highest moment of all the secular history of man.

He saw all this because he was a poet, though in practice a bad poet. It is too often forgotten that just as a bad man is nevertheless a man, so a bad poet is nevertheless a poet.

mien,

In fact, many of Shakespeare’s most brilliant turns of phrase turn out to have been common expressions of the day, which any Elizabethan Englishman or woman would be likely to have thrown into casual conversation, and whose authors remain as obscure as those of knock-knock jokes – even if, were it not for Shakespeare, they’d probably have passed ou

grok,”

the dignity arose wholly and entirely out of the fidelity; and that the glamour merely came from the vow.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.