Quotes About Morris

Full soft he lay his love beside; But dark are the days of wintertide.

To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off.

Miss Segrave," Alastair said dryly, "I assure you, there is nothing whatsoever about you that would ever remind anyone of a governess.

Only a few got to indulge in the pretence that they were part of a Roman elite.

Only at the end of the eleventh century was it reported that the king had died of supernatural causes,

wretchedly and treacherously', in the opinion of the anonymous scribe

in reality Oswald must have been no less ruthless and bloodthirsty than any other bretwalda.

The monk went on to become Pope Gregory the Great,

Two were works of Gregory the Great,

Bede, who would doubtless have furnished us with a detailed explanation of such a massive engineering project,

died in 735, a generation before Offa's accession.

The most pious King Æthelstan' is how he was described on the first page of the gospel book

famous for its illustrated manuscripts. It helped that Northumbria was outstandingly rich in cattle:

if anything sinister should befall him', his body was to be returned to Chester-le-Street for burial near St Cuthbert,

The letter survives because it forms the book's preface.)

the vikings would see if they could extract ransoms for the safe return of valuable books.

it was news of the surprise match that triggered the rebellion

William was a monk at Malmesbury and had evidently seen inside the king's tomb.

Æthelwold wrote up their conclusions in a document known as the Regularis Concordia

Now, thanks to his recent backing of

in whose blandishments he could luxuriate every day rather than clothe himself in woollen rags, like monks do.')

and decided to mark the northern limit of the empire by building his famous wall,

At its maximum in the second century, the number of soldiers stationed in this extensive frontier zone

One possibility is that the king and his companions were cracking down on 'fake monasteries