Two Sentences
Sir, —The final sentence of Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” has been quoted as one of the most perfect in the English language. Although so very different, another is surely the one of Churchill’s which we all know so well: and how perfectly they now fit in together! Churchill said: “Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few”; and Emily Bronte’s words seem to fall as a final blessing over the grave at Bladon: “I lingered round them, under that benign sky, watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind’ breathing through the grass, and wondered how anyone could even imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”—Yours, etc., THE BEAUTY OF WORDS. February 3, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30666, 4 February 1965, Page 12
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135Two Sentences Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30666, 4 February 1965, Page 12
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