Quotes
I am His Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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- Epigram, engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I gave to his Royal Highness (Frederick, Prince of Wales) — Alexander Pope, 1688-1744
Trams and dusty trees.
Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew
Undid me.
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- The Waste Land, 1922 (T.S.Eliot, 1888-1965)
And the wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Khatmandhu
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- In The Neolithic Age, 1892 (Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936)
Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!)
And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonderland;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!)
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- The Barrel-Organ, (Alfred Noyes, 1880-1958)
Lady Croom: My hyacinth dell is become a haunt for
hobgoblins, my Chinese bridge, which I am assured is
superior to the one at Kew, and for all I know at Peking, is
usurped by a fallen obelisk overgrown with briars.
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- Arcadia (play), 1993 (Tom Stoppard, 1937-)
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