George quotes
Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!
Georgeödon't do that.
In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies.
Darkness came down on the field and city: and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of medical thought.
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