Parson Nathaniel

Famous quotes containing the words parson and/or nathaniel:

    “—First a shiver, and then a thrill,
    Then something decidedly like a spill,—
    And the parson was sitting up on a rock,
    At half-past nine by the meet’n’-house clock,—
    Just the hour of the Earthquake shock!
    MWhat do you think the parson found,
    When he got up and stared around?
    The poor old chaise in a heap or mound,
    As if it had been to the mill and ground!”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)