George Meredith, OM was an English novelist and poet.
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“`Hog's my feed,' said Andrew Hedger . . .`Ah could eat hog a solid hower.'”
George Meredith
“Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, / The army of unalterable law.”
“Sweet as Eden is the air, / And Eden-sweet the ray.”
“Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.”
“Bring the army of the faithful through.”
“Caricature is rough truth.”
“Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward, / Couched with her arms behind her golden head, / Knees and tresses folded to slip and ripple idly, / Lies my young love sleeping in the shade.”
“The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.”
“Speech is the small change of silence.”
“Not till the fire is dying in the grate, / Look we for any kinship with the stars.”