Browne Told

Famous quotes containing the words browne and/or told:

    “Underneath this sable hearse
    Lies the subject of all verse:
    Sidney’s sister, Pembroke’s mother;
    Death ere thou has slain another,
    Fair, and learned, and good as she,
    Time shall throw a dart at thee.”
    —William Browne (1591–1643)

    “And all who told it added something new,
    And all who heard it, made enlargements too.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)