"Fardel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that ready enough," said he, laying his fardel down in the shade, and seating himself on it with ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... rhetoric? I was unlike others of my generation in one thing only. I am very religious, and deprived by Huxley and Tyndall, whom I detested, of the simple-minded religion of my childhood, I had made a new religion, almost an infallible church, out of poetic tradition: a fardel of stories, and of personages, and of emotions, a bundle of images and of masks passed on from generation to generation by poets & painters with some help from philosophers and theologians. I wished for a world where I could discover this tradition perpetually, and not ...
— Four Years • William Butler Yeats |
