Bret Harte Elementary

Famous quotes containing the words bret harte, bret, harte and/or elementary:

    “Drop down, O fleecy Fog and hide
    Her skeptic sneer, and all her pride!”
    —Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    “Drop down, O fleecy Fog and hide
    Her skeptic sneer, and all her pride!”
    —Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    “Which I wish to remark—
    And my language is plain—
    That for ways that are dark
    And for tricks that are vain,
    The heathen Chinee is peculiar:
    Which the same I would rise to explain.”
    —Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    “As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature’s elementary materials.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)