English/places

Famous quotes containing the words english and/or places:

    “Here tulips bloom as they are told;
    Unkempt about those hedges blows
    An English unofficial rose;”
    —Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

    “The places which I have described may seem strange and remote to my townsmen ... our account may have made no impression on your minds. But what is our account? In it there is no roar, no beach-birds, no tow-cloth.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)