Famous quotes containing the words kentish town, kentish, town and/or road:
“The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green.
Where are the eagles and the trumpets?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green.
Where are the eagles and the trumpets?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“But, where the road runs near the stream,
Oft through the trees they catch a glance
Of passing troops in the sun’s beam—
Pennon, and plume, and flashing lance!
Forth to the world those soldiers fare,
To life, to cities, and to war!”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)