Richard Blackmore Quotations

Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due.

Earth's tall sons, the cedar, ash, and pine, their parent's undecaying strength declare

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.