Sir Ernest Macmillan

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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)

    “Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy,”
    —Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917)

    “The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.”
    —Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)