Sunday, September 06, 2020
A Very Compendious Anathema
Bensoniana: From two Notebooks of A.C. Benson, Selected by J.A. Gere. Cornishiana: Sayings of Mrs Cornish, Mostly Collected by Logan Pearsall Smith (Settrington: Stone Trough Books, 1999), p. 19 (from Bensoniana):
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Clerk told to have a new hymn, but gives out as usual 'All people that &c.' Irate parson: 'D——— all people that on earth do dwell.' Lord Stowell: 'a very compendious anathema.'
