PowerOfBabel

When Sir Robert Walpole was dismissed from all his employments he retired to Houghton and walked into the Library; when, pulling down a book...

The very first copy of The White Peacock that was ever sent out, I put into my mother’s hands, when she was dying. She looked at the outside...

"He [Samuel Johnson] told me [Fanny Burney] that he was going to try what sleeping out of town might do for him. 'I remember,' ...