Middle English Romance

Famous quotes containing the words middle, english and/or romance:

    Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across the hundreds of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    Here tulips bloom as they are told;
    Unkempt about those hedges blows
    An English unofficial rose;
    Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

    She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
    Jane Austen (1775–1817)