Famous quotes containing the words kentish town, south, kentish and/or town:
“The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green.
Where are the eagles and the trumpets?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“To lib and die in Dixie!
Away, away, away down South in Dixie!”
—Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815–1904)
“The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green.
Where are the eagles and the trumpets?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Close to the academy in this town they have erected a sort of gallows for the pupils to practice on. I thought that they might as well hang at once all who need to go through such exercises in so new a country, where there is nothing to hinder their living an outdoor life. Better omit Blair, and take the air.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)