Sir John Borlase

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    “Columbus’s doom-burdened caravels
    Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.”
    —Sir John Collings Squire (1884–1958)

    “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)

    “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.”
    —John Brown (1800–1859)