Sir Charles Adam

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“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)

“Joy is the knock of dust, Cadaver’s shoot
Of bud of Adam through his boxy shift....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)