Famous quotes containing the words restoration and/or period:
“The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the best men, as the Algonquins called them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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