On Sunday night any Americans who are here come to see us. Harding brought with him a gentleman, whom he introduced as Mr. Alison. Bancroft asked him if he were related to Archdeacon Alison, who wrote the "Essay on Taste." "I am his son," said he. "Ah, then, you are the brother of the historian?" said Mr. Bancroft. "I am the historian," was the reply. An evening visitor is a thing unheard of, and therefore my life is very lonely, now I do not go into society.英文原著 · 《Letters from England》
Is it merely a commonplace fact? It is any fact? You say yourself it is a noteworthy fact. Now, how is the historian to tell whether a fact is noteworthy or not? He judges it arbitrarily, according to his tastes and his caprices and his ideas--in short, as an artist? For facts cannot by reason of their own intrinsic character be divided into historical facts and non-historical facts. But any fact is something exceedingly complex. Will the historian represent facts in all their complexity?英文原著 · 《The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard》
Long ago I dined occasionally with the old Earl, the father of the historian; he was a strange man, but what little I knew of him I liked much. He was frank, genial, and pleasant. He had strongly marked features, with a brown complexion, and his clothes, when I saw him, were all brown. He seemed to believe in everything which was to others utterly incredible. He said one day to me, "Why don't you give up your fiddle- faddle of geology and zoology, and turn to the occult sciences!" The historian, then Lord Mahon, seemed shocked at such a speech to me, and his charming wife much amused.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
Once upon a time, says rumour, he found himself face to face with Oliver Cromwell, whom he dragged from his coach, set ignominiously upon an ass, and so turned adrift with his feet tied under the beast's belly. The story is incredible, not only because the loyal historians of the time caused Oliver to be robbed daily on every road in Great Britain, but because our Gilderoy, had he ever confronted the Protector, most assuredly would not have allowed him to escape with his life.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
{31} In what manner the Poet goes beyond Philosopher, Historian, and all others (bating comparison with the Divine).英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
An art historian he knows is writing a book on Della Francesca.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》