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Updated: January 13, 2026

Rather we must turn for the sympathy we seek to yon pilgrim student, come from a semi-barbarous land to that small corner of the earth, as to a shrine, where he might take his fill gazing on those emblems and coruscations of invisible, unoriginate perfection.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV

Rather we must turn for the sympathy we seek to yon pilgrim student, come from a semi-barbarous land to that small corner of the earth, as to a shrine, where he might take his fill of gazing on those emblems and coruscations of invisible unoriginate perfection.

Percy Lubbock - A Book of English Prose: Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools