Sir Thomas Robinson

Famous quotes containing the words sir, thomas and/or robinson:

    “When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, “Good God, my Lord, don’t talk of that!” “Nay,” said Sir Robert, “it will not be till I am dead, and that I shall not feel it—nor you neither.””
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “Out of the sighs a little comes,
    But not of grief, for I have knocked down that
    Before the agony; the spirit grows,
    Forgets, and cries;
    A little comes, is tasted and found good....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “He may have seen with his mechanic eyes
    A world without a meaning, and had room,
    Alone amid magnificence and doom,
    To build himself an airy monument”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)