1st Earl of Orrery

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or orrery:

    Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it you will catch their judgments, such as they are.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Word of gloom from the war, one day;
    Johnston pressed at the front, they say.
    Little Giffen was up and away;
    A tear—his first—as he bade good-by,
    Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye.
    “I’ll write, if spared!” There was news of the fight;
    But none of Giffen.—He did not write.
    —Francis Orrery Ticknor (1822–1874)