Famous quotes containing the words laurence and/or irving:
“Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,
Whah de branch’ll go a-singin’ as it pass.”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
“Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but they are starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.”
—Washington Irving (1783–1859)