Arthur Quiller Couch

On the Art of Writing Arthur Quiller Couch

...and improved a rhythm so personal, so constant, that our Bible has the voice of one author speaking through its many mouths: that, Gentlemen, is a wonder before which I can only stand humble and aghast. Does it or does it not strike you as queer that the people who set you "courses of study" in English Literature never include the Authorised Version, which not only intrinsically but historically is out and away the greatest book of English Prose. Perhaps they pay you the silent compliment of supposing that you are perfectly acquainted with it?... I wonder. It seems as if they thought the Martin Marprelate Controversy, for example, more important somehow. 'So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality..."