James Hannay Quotes
1827–1873 Scotland
James Hannay FRSE (17 February 1827 – 9 January 1873), was a Scottish novelist, journalist and diplomat.
- Scotland
- Journalists
- Novelists
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Pompous the boast, and yet a truth it speaks:
A Modern Athens—fit for modern Greeks.
Tomkins will clear the land, they say,
From every foul abuse:
So chimneys in the olden day,
Were cleansed by a goose.
Characters and Criticisms (1865)
Blogg sneers at ancient birth;—yes, Blogg, we see,
Your ears are longer than your pedigree.
Characters and Criticisms (1865)
Through regions by wild men and cannibals haunted,
Old Dame Ida Pfeiffer goes lone and undaunted;
But, bless you, the risk's not so great as it's reckon'd,
She's too plain for the first, and too tough for the second.
Characters and Criticisms (1865)