01 February 2013

textbook love

"In fact, as far as we can tell, at the time the Clermont speech was something of a damp squib." Christopher Tyerman's God's War, page 66.

Sistle, v. To emit a kind of hissing sound Oxford English Dictionary


"Ha, fie, these filthy vices! It were as good / To pardon him that hath from nature stolen / A man already made, as to remit / Their saucy sweetness that do coin God's image / In stamps that are forbid." Angelo in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" (II.iv.42-6) The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, second edition.


"We must not make a scarecrow of the law, / Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, / And let it keep one shape till custom make it / Their perch, and not their terror." Angelo in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" (II.i.1-4) The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, second edition.


"It began to appear that France, rather than Barbie was on trial." Robert Gildea's France since 1945, 82.

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