Famous quotes containing the words frederick, townsend, ward, wards and/or army:
“It’s a pity you didn’t know when you started your game of murder, that I was playing, too.”
—Robb White, and William Castle. Frederick Loren (Vincent Price)
“Dizzily down the abyss he wheels—
So fell Darius. Upon his crown,
In the midst of the barn-yard he came down,
In a wonderful whirl of tangled strings,
Broken braces and broken springs,
Broken tail and broken wings,”
—John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916)
“Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is—Put down enthusiasm! ... The Church of England in a nutshell.”
—Humphrey, Mrs. Ward (1851–1920)
“Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)