"No other country has lived with so complicated a past so equably, assimilating everything that has happened to it, ob…"

"Fairies are very shy creatures and prefer to keep themselves hidden from human eyes"

"If you look very carefully, you may see a fairy in your garden"

"The world of fairies is all around us, though we seldom notice it"

"Fairies, elves, mermaids and water-babies inhabit the magical world created by Shirley Barber"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"