Baron Cowper

Famous quotes containing the words baron and/or cowper:

    Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
    Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham (1778–1868)

    I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day,
    I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,
    And, turning from my nursery window, drew
    A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu!
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)