Middle English Romance

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

    In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest—usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation—and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
    —J.M. (John Millington)

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

    The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)