Arthur Clement Hilton

Famous quotes containing the words clement hilton, arthur, clement and/or hilton:

    Is thy home European or Asian,
    O mystical monster marine?
    —Arthur Clement Hilton (1851–1877)

    London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    Strange beauty, eight-limbed and eight-handed
    Whence camest to dazzle our eyes?
    —Arthur Clement Hilton (1851–1877)

    The acorn’s not yet
    Fallen from the tree
    That’s to grow the wood,
    That’s to make the cradle,
    That’s to rock the bairn,
    That’s to grow a man,
    That’s to lay me.
    —Unknown. The Cauld Lad of Hilton or, The Wandering Spectre (l. 2–8)