Sir Thomas Abney

Famous quotes containing the words sir thomas, sir and/or thomas:

    “Nor I ame not where Christe is geven in pray
    For mony, poison and traison at Rome,”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
    And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
    ‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret;
    The code of night tapped on my tongue;
    What had been one was many sounding minded.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)