Henry Alford
Henry Alford
Henry Alford (7 October 1810 – 12 January 1871) was an English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer.
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- My bark is wafted to the strand
By breath Divine;
And on the helm there rests a hand
Other than mine.- Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 280.
- Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression.
- Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 603.