Frederick York Powell Quotes

Frederick York Powell was an English historian and scholar.

✵ 4. January 1850 – 8. May 1904
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Frederick York Powell Quotes

“Poor playthings of the man that's gone,
Surely we would not have them thrown,
Like wreckage on a barren strand,
The prey of every greedy hand.”

Frederick York Powell

&quot;On a Certain Auction in 1897&quot; <br class="br">Actually 1898, of the personal effects of Lewis Carroll <br class="br"> Frederick York Powell, a life and a selection from his letters and occasional writings http://www.archive.org/stream/frederickyorkpow02eltouoft/frederickyorkpow02eltouoft_djvu.txt

“It was a soufflé of a speech, light, pleasant, digestible, and nourishing also.”

Frederick York Powell

Of a talk by Lewis Carroll
The Lewis Carroll Picture Book (1899) p. 356

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