Famous quotes containing the words mark, dire and/or straits:
“Ask the perfumers, ask the blacking-makers, ask the hatters, ask the old lottery-office keepersask any man among em what my poetry has done for him, and mark my words, he blesses the name of Slum. If hes an honest man, he raises his eyes to heaven, and blesses the name of Slummark that!”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“An Austrian army, awfully arrayd,
Boldly by battery besiege Belgrade;
Cossack commanders cannonading come,
Deal devastations dire destructive doom;”
—Alaric Alexander Watts (17971864)
“Yes! in sea of life enisled,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
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