F. Harrison

Cited as F. Harrison. — 15 quotations

A-tiptoe

We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence.

Apt

That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers.

Area

The largest area of human history and man's common nature.

Bene placito

For our English judges there never was . . . any bene placito as their tenure.

Bowdlerize

It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowdlerized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale.

Curio

The busy world, which does not hunt poets as collectors hunt for curios.

Deluge

As I grub up some quaint old fragment of a [London] street, or a house, or a shop, or tomb or burial ground, which has still survived in the deluge.

Idyl

His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home.

Light

One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds.

Lilt

The movement, the lilt, and the subtle charm of the verse.

pet

Some young lady's pet curate.

Put

What droll puts the citizens seem in it all.

Snippet

To be cut into snippets and shreds.

Socialism

We certainly want a true history of socialism, meaning by that a history of every systematic attempt to provide a new social existence for the mass of the workers.

Teem

The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time.