Early Modern English/grammar

Famous quotes containing the words early, modern, english and/or grammar:

    “[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    “The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere, it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “The new grammar of race is constructed in a way that George Orwell would have appreciated, because its rules make some ideas impossible to express—unless, of course, one wants to be called a racist.”
    —Stephen Carter (b. 1954)