“When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is—the sense of the supernatural in nature.”
William Henry Hudson“Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.”
William Henry Hudson“In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.”
William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago“Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.”
William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago“When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is—the sense of the supernatural in nature.”
William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago