Famous quotes containing the words world and/or atlantic:
“As our actual present world ... shows itself more clearlyour world of an aristocracy materialised and null, a middle-class purblind and hideous, a lower class crude and brutalwe shall turn our eyes again, and to more purpose, upon this passionate and dauntless soldier of a forlorn hope.”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
“All the morning we had heard the sea roar on the eastern shore, which was several miles distant.... It was a very inspiriting sound to walk by, filling the whole air, that of the sea dashing against the land, heard several miles inland. Instead of having a dog to growl before your door, to have an Atlantic Ocean to growl for a whole Cape!”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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