Famous quotes containing the words alfred, shaker and/or village:
“Flash’d from his bed the electric tidings came,
He is no better, he is much the same.”
—Anonymous.
Parody of the style of poet laureate Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
“Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)