“He was the rarest musician that his age did behold; having travelled beyond the seas, and compounded English with foreign skill in that faculty.”
Thomas Fuller The History of the Worthies of England ([1662] 1840), vol. 2, p. 426.
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English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer 1563–1626Related quotes
“You are that rarest of creatures: a man with the wisdom to see beyond his own time.”
Source: The Prefect (2007), Chapter 10 (p. 125)
Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation (1943)
Context: If anyone possesses this faculty, then his attention is in reality directed beyond the world, whether he is aware of it or not.
The link which attaches the human being to the reality outside the world is, like the reality itself, beyond the reach of human faculties. The respect that it makes us feel as soon as it is recognized cannot be shown to us by evidence or testimony.
“Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”
Nusquam est qui ubique est. Vitam in peregrinatione exigentibus hoc evenit, ut multa hospitia habeant, nullas amicitias.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 2.
Address at University of Exeter (26 October 1978)
Letter to Lord Kennet, 1941; cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 243.
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A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
“There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign”
The Silverado Squatters.
Context: There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the ear.