Danube/history

Famous quotes containing the words danube and/or history:

    “The Danube to the Severn gave
    The darken’d heart that beat no more;
    They laid him by the pleasant shore,
    And in the hearing of the wave.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)