Famous quotes containing the words manfred and/or township:
“In short, Isabella, since I cannot give you my son, I offer you myself. -- Heavens! cried Isabella ... what do I hear! You, my lord! You! my father in law! the father of Conrad! the husband of the virtuous and tender Hippolita! -- I tell you, said Manfred imperiously, Hippolita is no longer my wife; I divorce her from this hour.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)