1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

Famous quotes containing the words baron, thomson and/or fleet:

    Sleep, and forget all things but one,
    Heard in each wave of sea,—
    How lonely all the years will run
    Until I rest by thee.
    John Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron De Tabley (1835–1895)

    If fancy then
    Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task,
    Ah, what shall language do?
    —James Thomson (1700–1748)

    A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
    For so appears this fleet majestical.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)