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Alice Meynell was an English writer born on September 22, 1847, and died on November 27, 1922. Her works encompassed poetry, prose, and criticism, known for their delicate emotion and profound thought.

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“I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.”

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Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.”

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Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour.”

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Author:Alice Meynell

About the Author

Born: September 22, 1847
Died: November 27, 1922
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 49

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