Sweet Vitriol

Famous quotes containing the words sweet and/or vitriol:

    [Gen. William S.] “Rosecrans [at Chicamauga] has been badly beaten!”... How these blows strike my heart!... I suffer from these blows more than I did from the loss of my sweet little boy. But I suffer less now than I did from Bull Run, or even Fredericksburg.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    Apples? New Hampshire has them, but unsprayed,
    With no suspicion in stem end or blossom end
    Of vitriol or arsenate of lead,
    And so not good for anything but cider.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)