Middle English Creole

Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or english:

    In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.
    Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)