"Gordon's journals are splendid, I delight in an eccentric man upsetting the odds which routine, formality, "Foreign" …"

"I must say that in my judgment Swinburne's claims are immeasurably superior to those of any Englishman now living... …"

"It would be hard to imagine anyone less like a professional politician than George Wyndham, either in his appearance …"

"It suited him better to write a verse, hunt a fox and sit talking with his friends into the early hours, and he was o…"

"Lord Pembroke and George Wyndham were the handsomest of the Souls."

"As a fact, the one Front-Bench man who seemed in the days of my youth still eternally young was for me, in those days…"

"[H]e had been in high favour with Balfour, although the rank and file had never cottoned to his dandified and over-po…"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"England, our native country, one of the most renowned monarchies in the world, against which the Pope beareth a speci…"

"The most high and absolute power of the realm of England consisteth in the parliament: for as in war where the king h…"