English Song Originally

Famous quotes containing the words english, song and/or originally:

    “He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.”
    —Sixteenth-century English proverb.

    “Turn back,
    back
    to the lake of Delos;
    lest all the song notes
    pause and break
    across a blood-stained throat....”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)