Category: Various quotes

Thomas Carlyle

William Wordsworth

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?


Hannah More

Charles Kingsley

Clear and cool, clear and cool,By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.


Robert Burns

In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.


Robert Browning

Lord Byron

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.


Tacitus

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.


Alexander Pope

Edward Gibbon