The Copybook

Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.

1579

© Hugh Chappell, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.

The Battle of Ynys Mon Clay Lane

Suetonius Paulinus, Governor of Britain, hoped to enhance his reputation.

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1580

© Derek Voller, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Love’s Last Knot Richard Crashaw

Richard Crashaw offers the hope of eternity for wedded love.

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1581

By Underworld74, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Attribution only.

Orpheus and Eurydice Clay Lane

Orpheus would lose his beloved wife Eurydice to death not once, but twice.

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1582

© Dwight Sipler, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose! Charles H. Ross

(That’s cat-tails, obviously.) And who ever said cats were unpredictable?

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1583

From Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

‘Better Habits, Not Greater Rights’ Samuel Smiles

The extraordinary productivity and social mobility of the Victorian era is to the credit not of the governing class, but of the working man.

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1584

© tango7174, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Theseus and the Minotaur Clay Lane

A warning not to be forgetful of others, even in triumph.

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