On 7 Sep 2000, 9:21, Robert Turnbull wrote:
> Many are familiar with the following quotation from G.M. Trevelyan:
>
> "Once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked
> other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own
> thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation
> vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly
> be gone like ghosts at cockcrow."
>
> I am trying down the source of this passage Mr. Trevelyan wrote a number
> of works, many now out of print. Does anyone know the title of the work
> in which this quote appeared ?
>
> I have searched the net, but no luck.
"The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once on
this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and
women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed
by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation after another,
gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like a ghost at
cockcrow."
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Autobiography and Other Essays
Longmans, Green, 1949
http://www.inch.com/~buehler/quotes.html
Alan
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