Famous quotes containing the words american, ball and/or park:
“Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Throw down the ball, ye Jews daughter,
Throw down the ball to me!
Never a bit, says the Jews daughter,
Till up to me come ye.”
—Unknown. Hugh of Lincoln (l. 1316)
“Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his comb and spare shirt, leathern breeches and gauze cap to keep off gnats, with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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