Not who you're looking for? Others named Thomas Bulfinch: American writer and mythologist (1796-1867)
“Our work is not for the learned, nor for the theologian, nor for the philosopher, but for the reader of English literature, of either sex, who wishes to comprehend the allusions so frequently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation.”
“The Greeks believed the earth to be flat and circular, their own country occupying the middle of it, the central point being either Mount Olympus, the abode of the gods, or Delphi, so famous for its oracle.”
“He saw her eyes bright as stars; he saw her lips, and was not satisfied with only seeing them.”
“... those refinements of civility which formed what was in that age called courtesy.”
“"Alas! for shame," said Sir Launcelot, "that ever one knight should betray another! but it is an old saw, a good man is never in danger, but when he is in danger of a coward."”
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