Sir John

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    “What a treat to hear Thy Word
    Where the bones of leading statesmen,
    Have so often been interred.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “Give me the critic bred in Nature’s school,
    Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
    Who feeling’s honest dictates still obeys,
    And dares, without a precedent, to praise.”
    —Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)