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