English Song Originally

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

    “Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
    The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “Death could drop from the dark
    As easily as song—
    But song only dropped,”
    —Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)

    “If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)