Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth18 July 1865
few national near prizes south style though took
Though while at South Kensington I took a few prizes in the National Competition, I did not get near to having a style of my own.
clumsy entire letters stage
If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.
abolish capital civilised countrymen hope suicide time
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
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Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.
novels poems tales
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
faster mine poems wrote
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
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The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.
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A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
saint goodness attractive
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.