Time England

Famous quotes containing the words time and/or england:

    Thou must be patient. We came crying hither.
    Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air
    We wawl and cry.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    What else has been English news for so long a season? What else, of late years, has been England to us,—to us who read books, we mean?... Carlyle alone, since the death of Coleridge, has kept the promise of England. It is the best apology for all the bustle and the sin of commerce, that it has made us acquainted with the thoughts of this man.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)