Britain Passed

Famous quotes containing the words britain and/or passed:

    “I’ th’ world’s volume
    Our Britain seems as of it, but not in’ t;
    In a great pool a swan’s nest.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The souls did from their bodies fly—
    They fled to bliss or woe!
    And every soul, it passed me by,
    Like the whizz of my cross-bow!”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)