English Song Originally

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

    “You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “Marlowe went muttering to death
    When he had done with song and lust.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “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)