Manchester City Brook

Famous quotes containing the words manchester, city and/or brook:

    “The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “The City is of Night, but not of Sleep;
    There sweet sleep is not for the weary brain;
    The pitiless hours like years and ages creep,”
    —James Thomson (1834–1882)

    “The brook was thrown
    Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
    In fetid darkness still to live and run....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)