Famous quotes containing the words blood and/or chronicles:
“My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill,
And fighting was not his trade;
But his rusty pikes in the cabin still,
With Hessian blood on the blade.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (18461925)
“Our medieval historians who prefer to rely as much as possible on official documents because the chronicles are unreliable, fall thereby into an occasionally dangerous error. The documents tell us little about the difference in tone which separates us from those times; they let us forget the fervent pathos of medieval life.”
—Johan Huizinga (18721945)
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