John Hookham Frere Quotes

• A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship.

  John Hookham Frere

  Friendship, Eternity, Strikes

  John Hookham Frere, sir Henry Bartle E. Frere (1st bart.) (1872). “The works of John Hookham Frere, collected with a mem. by W.E. and sir B. Frere”, p.114

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• The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.

  John Hookham Frere

  Attention, Language, Ought

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• And don't confound the language of the nation with long-tail'd words in osity and ation.

  John Hookham Frere

  Long, Language, Nations

  "The Monks and the Giants".

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