Famous quotes containing the words long, parliament, december and/or rump:
“I concentrate.
My books hypnotize each other.
Jarrell tells Bishop to stare
at the spot. Tate
tells Plath she’s going under.
Eliot remembers his long lost mother....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“He felt that it would be dull times in Dublin, when they should have no usurping government to abuse, no Saxon Parliament to upbraid, no English laws to ridicule, and no Established Church to curse.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“For I have lost the race I never ran,
A rathe December blights my lagging May;”
—Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)
“Who clipped the lion’s wings
And flea’d his rump and pared his claws?
Thought Burbank, meditating on
Time’s ruins, and the seven laws.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
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