Bret Harte Road

Famous quotes containing the words bret harte, bret, harte and/or road:

    “And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor,
    And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.”
    —Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    “Drop down, O fleecy Fog and hide
    Her skeptic sneer, and all her pride!”
    —Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    “In his sleeves, which were long,
    He had twenty-four packs,—
    Which was coming it strong,
    Yet I state but the facts;
    And we found on his nails, which were taper,
    What is frequent in tapers,—that’s wax.”
    —Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    “Down the road someone is practicing scales,
    The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails,”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)