Henry Duff Traill, biographer and satirist of Grant Allen’s
The British
Barbarians, was a worthy forebear of Monty Python.
— Michael Main
It was a case of the angels tumbling to the daughters of men. He saw at the first sight
that she was a woman to be desired, a soul high-throned, very calm and dignified, yet
scrumptious withal. Like the angels, he tumbled to her, and, falling from so great a
height, was instantly mashed.