Black Jack Brigade

Famous quotes containing the words black, jack and/or brigade:

    “Thus Winter falls,
    A heavy gloom oppressive o’er the world
    Through Nature shedding influence malign,
    And rouses up the seeds of dark disease.
    The soul of man dies in him, loathing life,
    And black with more than melancholy views.”
    —James Thomson (1700–1748)

    “This is the priest all shaven and shorn
    That married the man all tattered and torn”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 37–38)

    “Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)