Famous quotes containing the words charing cross, charing and/or cross:
“Cry;and upon thy so sore loss
Shall shine the traffic of Jacobs ladder
Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross.”
—Francis Thompson (18591907)
“As I was going by Charing Cross,
I saw a black man upon a black horse;
They told me it was King Charles the First”
—Unknown. As I was going by Charing Cross (l. 13)
“When the cross blue lightning seemed to open
The breast of heaven, I did present myself
Even in the aim and very flash of it.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)