"So we were launched by the Elizabethan seamen upon our long career of adventure across the seas: adventure leading to…"

"The truth is that all these men exemplify a triumph of will-power: that is what enabled them to succeed. The strain m…"

"Within the the authorities had increasing difficulties to contend with from the puritans in these middle years of the…"

"The fact of our being an island has been a great advantage all through our later history. It has given us the benefit…"

"The most elaborate of these were those of Christmas 1594, of which we have a detailed, somewhat tedious account — for…"

"... Marlowe's plays had the advantage of being performed by the greatest of Elizabethan actors, then coming to the fo…"

"I consoled myself with a rare bout of gossip with the piano-tuner, rather a dear little man, with up-turned, waved mu…"

"We must put these things in the perspective of the age, its ubiquitous cruelty: flogging and beating were frequent, s…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"