The Copybook

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

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From ‘College Addresses’ by Sir Hubert Parry (1920).

Mistakes, Right and Wrong Sir Hubert Parry

Sir Hubert Parry explained to students at the Royal College of Music that some mistakes are creative whereas others are destructive.

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© LA(Photo) Angie Pearce / MOD, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Open Government Licence v1.0.

The Open Sea Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden despaired at British statesmen using the peerless Royal Navy merely to strangle trade in other countries.

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© Gary Kramer / US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.

The Wolves’ Treaty Clay Lane

The leader of a wolf-pack makes some sheep an offer they’d better refuse.

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

George Pinto Clay Lane

An innovative English composer who did not live to fulfil his extraordinary promise.

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From Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

The Most Unkindest Cut of All Clay Lane

Greek revolutionary Nikitarás gives his ungrateful men a sharp reminder of what really matters.

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From Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (1907), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Pandora’s Box Clay Lane

After being outwitted once too often, Zeus decides to spite Prometheus by ruining the race of men.

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