
“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”
Source: The Wizard Heir
Frank Keating, "Tributes flow as Johnners, voice of English cricket, dies at 81", The Guardian, 6 January 1994.
Tribute on the death of cricket commentator Brian Johnston.
1990s, 1994
“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”
Source: The Wizard Heir
I Do Weddings http://progressive.org/?q=node/804
The Progressive, Unplugged
“Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!”
Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918)
Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), Chapter 1, "Sociology as an Individual Pastime."
Poem: A Time Will Come (1915); Cited in: John Arlott, Fred Trueman (1971) Arlott and Trueman on cricket. p. 173
He is referring to cricket; later, "the beautiful game" was used to describe football.