Thomas Gordon Hake

"... Mr. Nussey, the king's apothecary, ... whom I knew very intimately later in life, told me that the king confided to him all his secrets, and the knowledge, if written down, would set all England i…"

"I thought no one ever could paint a woman's eyes like Rossetti. There was a softness, a delicacy, a life, a soul in them, never seen elsewhere, but in living beings, and that how rarely!"

"A poem, of whatever length, should start vividly, so as to wind up the ear and set the mind ticking."

"I remember well the time when no gentleman was supposed to smoke; the habit was fit only for the vulgarian."

"Nothing that has been and has died out, will be revived. The skeleton, an osseous Apollo, will remain, and that is all."

"In those days, and long after, an English clergyman dressed like a gentleman; he now wears a black livery, and he looks like a bishop's footman, in mourning, with his master, for some dead archbishop."

"It is my purpose in writing these Memoirs to adhere rigidly to truth, at least in its essence. Should I succeed in this, my work would be a very remarkable one, almost unique."

"Dr. Thomas Young, the illustrious inventor of the Undulatory Theory of Light, was then a physician at St. George's. I used to go round the wards with him. He was thought to be very undecided in his op…"