Sparks Commentary

“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writ...

He had more influence upon the  English language  than any other individual – perhaps even more than the Biblical translator William Tyndale...

“If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough, shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost!” – Willia...

In 1986, there were two versions of “The Story of English” – a television series, and a book. I never got to see much of the television seri...

“It shall be lawful for the Queen, with the advice of the Privy Council, to declare by proclamation that, on and after a day therein appoi...

“I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer i...

“ ♪ Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves. And Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. ♪ ” – “Rule, Britannia!” (1740) , a B...

“ … That [the] said Country or Dominion of Wales shall be, stand and continue for ever from henceforth incorporated, united and annexed ...

When the Founding Fathers wrote the original Constitution in 1787, they were creating a document that would change everything in America, ...

" ... these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES ; that they are absolved from all allegiance ...

“... t here was not one single hide, nor a yard [endnote] of land, nay, moreover (it is shameful to tell, though he thought it no shame t...

"It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to ...

"As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions shall be set up in India , to be kn...

" ... the said kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland shall, upon the first day of January, which shall be in the year of our lord on...

"That the Two Kingdoms of  Scotland and England  shall upon the first day of May next ensuing the date hereof and forever after be  U...

"That the two Kingdoms of  England and Scotland  shall upon the First day of May which shall be in the year One thousand seven hundre...

"The enumeration [or "listing"] in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others ...

I don't know where I came across this poem,  but I thought it was clever.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." - William Shakespeare 's "...

"It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, to declare by Proclamation ...