The Bapton Books Sampler: a literary chrestomathy (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• A. A. Milne: Add a description of this character.
• Beatrix Potter
• Aristotle
• Rudyard Kipling
• James Delingpole
• Sherlock Holmes
• David Cameron
• Robert Louis Stevenson

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• “I suppose the general attitude is, if it involves talking bunnies, hand it to the toddling crowd. The fact that the fables of Æsop, the contes of Reynard the Fox, the story of Chanticleer, for millennia taught ethics to princes and prelates, knights and emperors, is evidently immaterial to what we may laughingly call the modern mind. When pilgrims wending their way to Canterbury — or St James Compostela — tell such tales, they tell them not to children but to prioresses and millers and a certain English bureaucrat named Geoffrey Chaucer. But we in our hubris toss them aside, as fit only for babes.”

  Markham Shaw Pyle

• “... the grandee {Tory}, like the duke of Omnium, does not much care what happens to the country, or the Church, or the Crown, save as it affects the grandee’s position, privileges, and emoluments; the grocer {Tory} has the innate, Burkean loyalties of Lord De Courcy. But these are Burkean and organic, and are justified to the grocer as being bulwarks of, yes, the liberty of the subject.”

  GMW Wemyss

• “... it is not the hand that rocks the cradle, but the hand that turns the page, that holds thereby the sceptre and dominion of the world.”

  Markham Shaw Pyle

• “Indeed, the greatest and most implacable enemies of junk bonds are and by rights ought to be traders; of crony capitalism, capitalists; and of junk science, those who hold true science in its just regard.”

  GMW Wemyss

• “As Lewis noted in The Pilgrim’s Regress, when the Word is blocked, the true Landlord smuggles in icons to stir the hearts of the oppressed. If ours is Auden’s haunted wood, the Dantean forest at the gates of the Inferno, then as Lewis has noted, all light that penetrates this thicket is holy, redemptive, and of a single source.”

  Markham Shaw Pyle

• “These yet, as honour fades and goes, / In times made fat and dull with peace, / Enjoy the warrior’s right repose / Who paid in blood for civil ease.”

  GMW Wemyss

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• Cenotaph
• Wiltshire
• Sawrey
• Westminster
• Connecticut
• Baker Street
• River Thames
• Berkshire
• Texas
• The Hundred Acre Wood

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1. Markham Shaw Pyle (Author)
2. GMW Wemyss (Author)

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Essays

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