Robert Aris Willmott Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  History, Dine, Reader

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

• History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and nature in her magnificence,--Jerusalem bleeding under the Roman, or Lisbon vanishing in flame and earthquake. History must be splendid. Bacon called it the pomp of business. Its march is in high places, and along the pinnacles and points of great affairs.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Pride, Men, Flames

• History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Drama, Moving, Epic

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

• To study history is to study literature.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  History, Literature, Study

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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