unmargined

Updated: May 3, 2025

Mr Tupper might long ago have sat with laureate brow but for his neglect of this first principle. The song of Sigurd, our one epic of the century, is pitiably unmargined, and so has never won the full meed of glory it deserves; while the ingenious gentleman who wrote ``Beowulf, our other English epic, grasped the great fact from the first, so that his work is much the more popular of the two.

Kenneth Grahame - Pagan Papers