This reminiscence brought the Welsh Inns in general before me; with the women in their round hats, and the harpers with their white beards (venerable, but humbugs, I am afraid), playing outside the door while I took my dinner. The transition was natural to the Highland Inns, with the oatmeal bannocks, the honey, the venison steaks, the trout from the loch, the whisky, and perhaps (having the materials so temptingly at hand) the Athol brose. ~ The Holly-Tree
The men who learn endurance,
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. ~ Barnaby Rudge
With them who stood upon
With them who stood upon the brink of the great gulf which none can see beyond, Time, so soon to lose itself in vast Eternity, rolled on like a mighty river, swollen and rapid as it nears the sea. ~ Barnaby Rudge
Indeed this gentleman’s stoicism was
Indeed this gentleman’s stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself. ~ Barnaby Rudge
There are talkers enough among us
“There are talkers enough among us; I’ll be one of the doers.” ~ Barnaby Rudge
The serjeant was describing a
The serjeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love-making. A battle was the finest thing in the world—when your side won it—and Englishmen always did that. ~ Barnaby Rudge
Everything was fresh and gay,
Everything was fresh and gay, as though the world were but that morning made. ~ Barnaby Rudge
“I have been taught to
“I have been taught to look upon those means, by which men raise themselves to riches and distinction, as being beyond my heeding, and beneath my care. I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.” ~ Barnaby Rudge
It was on one of those mornings
It was on one of those mornings, common in early spring, when the year, fickle and changeable in its youth like all other created things, is undecided whether to step backward into winter or forward into summer. ~ Barnaby Rudge
Blunt tools are sometimes found
“Blunt tools are sometimes found of use, where sharper instruments would fail.” ~ Barnaby Rudge
