"Pomfret" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as the light unto thy heat. Thus when some quitted action, to their shame, And only got a discreet coward's name, Thou with thy blood mad'st purchase of renown, And died'st the glory of the sword and gown. Thy blood hath hallow'd Pomfret, and this blow —Profan'd before—hath church'd the Castle now. Nor is't a common valour we deplore, But such as with fifteen a hundred bore, And lightning-like—not coop'd within a wall— In storms of fire and steel fell on them all. Thou wert no woolsack soldier, nor of those Whose courage lies ...
— Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II • Henry Vaughan
... "I am alone,—a poor unprotected female. But I fear nothing. I have strong reason for believing that Lord Brentford is somewhere about. And Pomfret the butler, who has known me since I was a baby, is a host ...
— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope
... truth and loyalty, Your helpless, old, expiring master view! They hear not: scarce religion does supply Her mutter'd requiems, and her holy dew. Yet thou, proud boy, from Pomfret's walls shalt send A sigh, and envy ...
— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray
... the brave, Who in Pomfret shot the wolf in the cave; And by her ears did draw her out,— I am no ...
— The Old Stone House • Anne March
... their writers must have proved of the society to which they belonged, and what delight they must have given to the circles in which they more immediately moved. The Lady Russel, the Lady Luxborough, the Countess of Pomfret, Mrs. Elizabeth Montague, &c. &c.,—names well fixed in the epistolary literature of England, though unknown in the walks of ordinary authorship—may be regarded as specimens of the class. Even in the cases in which ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller
... woolstapler; whilst the modern dukes of Northumberland find their head, not in the Percies, but in Hugh Smithson, a respectable London apothecary. The founders of the families of Dartmouth, Radnor, Ducie, and Pomfret, were respectively a skinner, a silk manufacturer, a merchant tailor, and a Calais merchant; whilst the founders of the peerages of Tankerville, Dormer, and Coventry, were mercers. The ancestors of Earl Romney, and Lord Dudley and ...
— Self Help • Samuel Smiles |
