Hails Quotes
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack,And proves, by thumping on your back,His sense of your great merit,Is such a friend that one had needBe very much his friend indeedTo pardon or to bear it.
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The man that hails youTom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.
william cowper— 1782 Poems,'Friendship', l.169-74.
He hails from Snowy River, up by Kosciusko's side,Where the hills are twice as steep, and twice as rough;Where the horse's hoofs strike firelight from the flintstones every stride,The man that holds his own is good enough.And the Snowy River riders on the mountains make their home,Where the river runs those giant hills between;I have seen full many horsemen since I first commenced to roam,But nowhere yet such horsemen have I seen.
andrew paterson— "The Man From Snowy River", the poem which inspired the movies by the same name.
When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be, He comes from Appomattox And its famous apple tree.
— Miles O'Reilly, poem quoted by Roscoe Conkling (June, 1880).
Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here;
— An 1871 poem on the illness of the Prince of Wales, although there is some doubt that Austin actually wrote this part. That classic compendium "The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse" (2d ed. 1930; Capricorn paperback 1962) includes a dozen quotations from Austin but attributes this particular couplet (p. 17) to a "university poet unknown." It also provides a metrically more accurate first line, "Across the wires the gloomy message came," plus "not" for "no" in the second line.
NEGRO Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.
john brunner— Stand on Zanzibar (1968), context (6) “One Comes Out Where...”
