Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Augustus Hare
Born: March 13, 1834
Died: January 22, 1903 (aged 68)
Bio: Augustus John Cuthbert Hare was an English writer and raconteur.
Known for:
- Days Near Rome (1875)
- Memorials Of A Quiet Life - Vol I (1872)
- Peculiar People: The Story of My Life
- Cities of Southern Italy and Sicily (1883)
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