"Floridity" Quotes from Famous Books
... British lion. But neither of these patriots, any more than their English compeers, was seriously disturbed about the interests of the rest of the world. The Englishman was contentedly singing "God Save the Queen!" The American, was apostrophizing the bird of freedom with the floridity of rhetoric that reached its climax in the "Pogram Defiance." What the Dutchies and Frenchies were doing was little more to an Englishman than ... — Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete - The Romance of Devotion • Lyndon Orr |