Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

Famous quotes containing the words baron, port and/or ellen:

    “My hand and pen are not in plight,
    As they have been of yore.”
    —Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

    “Through the port comes the moon-shine astray!
    It tips the guard’s cutlass and silvers this nook;
    But ‘twill die in the dawning of Billy’s last day.
    A jewel-block they’ll make of me to-morrow,
    Pendant pearl from the yard-arm-end
    Like the ear-drop I gave to Bristol Molly—
    O, ‘tis me, not the sentence they’ll suspend.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “I have eyes to see now what I have never seen before.”
    —Anonymous, U.S. correspondence student. As quoted in The Life of Ellen H. Richards, ch. 9, by Caroline L. Hunt, quoting Ellen Swallow Richards (1912)