"There were two good fellows I used to know. —How distant it all appears! We played together in football weather, And …"

"Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious…"

"To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things;…"

"I do not want to see that girl again: I did not like her: and I should not mind If she were done away with, killed, o…"

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"I’m full of hate and I love it!"

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"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"