
“4948. They agree like Bells; they want nothing but hanging.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), A Crowded Trolley Car
Context: The rain’s cold grains are silver-gray
Sharp as golden sands,
A bell is clanging, people sway
Hanging by their hands.
“4948. They agree like Bells; they want nothing but hanging.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The Golden Violet - The Falcon
The Golden Violet (1827)
Recited on Newsnight with Kirsty Wark, December 22, 2004
Lyrics and poetry
“Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed,
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.”
St. 12
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc (written 1750, publ. 1751)
“People die when they get hanged. It’s why they hang them!”
Prologue “The Minder” section 8 (p. 19)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)
“Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people,”
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.4 Why Has Christianity Never Undertaken the Work of Social Reconstruction?, p. 145
Context: Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.