Rough

Famous quotes containing the word rough:

    Not once or twice in our rough island-story
    The path of booty was the way to glory.
    Anonymous.

    The last and greatest Herald of Heaven’s King,
    Girt with rough skins, hies to the deserts wild,
    Among that savage brood the woods forth bring,
    Which he than man more harmless found and mild.
    William Drummond, of Hawthornden (1585–1649)

    This far outstripped the other;
    Yet ever runs she with reverted face,
    And looks and listens for the boy behind:
    For he, alas! is blind!
    O’er rough and smooth with even step he passed,
    And knows not whether he be first or last.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)