Author: Winifred Holtby

Cites

• Thomas Hobbes (1)
  • IN: Anderby Wold (1923) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Felicity is a continual progresse of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the later … so that, in the first place, I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of power after power which ceaseth only after death ... and there shall be no contentment but proceeding.
    FROM: Leviathan, I, II., (1651), Book, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: South Riding (1936) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Take what you want,' said God. 'Take it - and pay for it.'
    FROM: Old Spanish Proverb (quoted in This Was My World by Viscountess Rhondda.), (None), Proverb, Spain
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: The Land of Green Ginger (1927) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body and of mind to exercise the Divine Arts of Imagination - Imagination, the real and eternal world of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow.
    FROM: Jerusalem, (1808), Poem, UK
• (Sir) Walter Raleigh (1)
  • IN: The Land of Green Ginger (1927) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: . . . Whilst my soul like quiet palmer Travelleth towards the land of Heaven. Over the silver mountains Where spring the nectar fountains, There will I kiss the bowl of bliss And drink mine everlasting fill Upon every milken hill. My soul will be adry before, But after, it will thirst no more.
    FROM: Manoa, (None), Poem, UK
• (Sir) Albert Kaye Rollit (1)
  • IN: The Land of Green Ginger (1927) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The names of the streets too, are better chosen, though there are still some such curious survivals as the 'Land of Green Ginger', one of the principal thoroughfares, most probably so called from its having been a place for the manufacture or sale of green ginger, a conserve of ginger and lemon juice, temp. Henry VIII.
    FROM: Handbook to Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, (None), Book, UK