Famous quotes containing the words dear lord, dear, lord and/or london:
“Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray:
to see thee more clearly,
love thee more dearly,
follow thee more nearly,
day by day.”
—Richard Of Chichester (1197–1253)
“List, list, O list!
If thou didst ever thy dear father love—
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Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
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Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Children, confine your lights in jellied rules;
Resemble graves; be metaphysical mules;
Learn Lord will not distort nor leave the fray.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. After the war, everyone had a car—no wings for it—and the promised superhighway to drive it down, so that the sky itself darkened, and the fumes ate the marble and pitted the miracle crystal.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)