Quotes from authors passed in 1759
In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.
William Collins
You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.
James Wolfe
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
William Collins
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
James Wolfe
Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.
James Wolfe
George Bancroft 
Patricia Clarkson 
Isiah Thomas 
Kent Conrad 
Robert Browning 
Gregory Corso 
Justin Long 
Lorna Luft