Famous quotes containing the words hamilton and/or gordon:
“Last night there was four Maries,
The night therell be but three;
There was Marie Seton, and Marie Beton,
And Marie Carmichael, and me.”
—Unknown. Mary Hamilton (l. 6972)
“The conqueror at least; who, ere Time renders
His last award, will have the long grass grow
Above his burnt-out brain and sapless cinders.
If I might augur, I should rate but low
Their chances: they are too numerous, like the thirty
Mock tyrants, when Romes annals waxd but dirty.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)