Famous quotes containing the words prentice, hall and/or press:
“Auld Nature swears, the lovely Dears
Her noblest work she classes, O:
Her prentice han she tryd on man,
An then she made the lasses, O.”
—Robert Burns (17591796)
“He packs wool sheared in April, honey
in combs, linen, leather
tanned from deerhide,
and vinegar in a barrel
hooped by hand at the forges fire.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“Ah stay, my heart, the weight
of lovers, of loneliness
drowns me,
alas that their very names
so press to break my heart
with heart-sick weariness.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)