Written Laurence Marks

Famous quotes containing the words written, laurence and/or marks:

    What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,
    Whah de branch’ll go a-singin’ as it pass.
    —Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)

    I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)