Parson Nathaniel

Famous quotes containing the words parson and/or nathaniel:

    “But country folks who live beneath
    The shadow and the steeple;
    The parson and the parson’s wife,
    And mostly married people;”
    —Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)

    “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)