West Norse

Famous quotes containing the words west and/or norse:

“He is every other inch a gentleman.”
—Rebecca West [Cicily Isabel Fairfield] (1892–1983)

“Carlyle has not the simple Homeric health of Wordsworth, nor the deliberate philosophic turn of Coleridge, nor the scholastic taste of Landor, but, though sick and under restraint, the constitutional vigor of one of his old Norse heroes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)