3 Quotes & Sayings By Henry Ellis

Henry Ellis was a British poet and an early friend of the Romantic poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake. He is best known today for his 1819 sonnet On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, which contains the lines: "In old abbeys ruins, hollowed by time;/And mountain-rests that wake at night to hear/The water-brooks, and winds that sing in them,/There shall I live, there shall my children be."

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The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago .. . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Henry Ellis
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To make a mountain of a mole-hill. Henry Ellis