Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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Sweet and Sour

The great Dr Johnson argues that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

1166

St Nicholas the Wet

Two frantic parents implore St Nicholas’s help in rescuing their baby boy.

1167

Ring out the Old, Ring in the New

For Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christmas was a time to let the dead past bury its dead.

1168

The Voyage of the ‘Golden Hinde’

Elizabethan adventurer Sir Francis Drake combined sailing round the world with really annoying the King of Spain.

1169

Christmas Bells

The sounds of an English country Christmas helped Tennyson in his deep mourning for an old friend.

1170

Wenceslaus: A Life for a Life

By Divine providence, the shocking murder of Good King Wenceslas led to a flowering of Christian faith in Europe.