Jacob Blessed Pharaoh

Famous quotes containing the words jacob, blessed and/or pharaoh:

    “I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    ““Of fayre Elisa be your silver song,
    That blessed wight:
    The flowre of virgins, may shee florish long
    In princely plight.”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “Be mine the tomb that swallowed up Pharaoh and all his hosts; let me lie down with Drake, where he sleeps in the sea.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)