Sir Thomas Gascoigne

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

    “Blame but thyself that hast misdone,
    And well deserved to have blame;
    Change thou thy way so evil begun,
    And then my lute shall sound that same:
    But if till then my fingers play
    By thy desert their wonted way,
    Blame not my lute.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “Give me the critic bred in Nature’s school,
    Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
    Who feeling’s honest dictates still obeys,
    And dares, without a precedent, to praise.”
    —Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)

    “Thrust, my daughter or son, to escape, there is none, none, none,
    Nor when all ponderous heaven’s host of waters breaks.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Full many wanton babes have I,
    Which must be stilled with lullaby.”
    —George Gascoigne (1539–1577)