If I were fifteen years younger than I am, how happy I would be to come over to my beloved England once more, and see you surrounded by your sons and daughters, loved, admired, I would almost say worshipped, by a whole grateful nation.
Morley expresses a nostalgic longing to return to England and be surrounded by loved ones, reflecting on the affection of the nation for its leaders.
Share
More from John Morley
They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…
Can wool repair The colours that it lost when soaked with dye?
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.
Other voices in this conversation
