Spreading Chestnut Tree

Famous quotes containing the words spreading chestnut, spreading and/or tree:

    “Under a spreading chestnut-tree
    The village smithy stands;
    The smith, a mighty man is he,
    With large and sinewy hands;
    And the muscles of his brawny arms
    Are strong as iron bands.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Glory is like a circle in the water,
    Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
    Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
    Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
    The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)