"Pride and resentment are not indigenous in the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of th…"

"The year after ’s death Mirrlees converted to Catholicism, and for the next twenty or so years lived with her mother …"

"Hope Mirrlees's 1926 novel Lud-in-the-Mist, about the scandalous banishment of the Faerie folk by law-abiding convent…"

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

"Auribus immensis quondam donatus asellus institit ut caudam posset habere parem. cauda suo capiti quia se conferre ne…"

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"You are, and haue beene feared ouer all, England's an Ile, of stoute and hardie men: Be stronge in faith, your foes d…"

"Anglia cui mater fuerat, cui Gallia nutrix, Matri nutricem praefero mente meam. Six utriusque tamen meritis praeconia…"

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."