Townsend/history

Famous quotes containing the words townsend and/or history:

“An aspiring genius was D. Green:
The son of a farmer, age fourteen;
His body was long and lank and lean—
Just right for flying, as will be seen;”
—John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916)

“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
—Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)