Essex Famous Quotes

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One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?” asked the Roman. “They’re nasty bits about famous people; everyone will want them.
Karen Essex
As a famous historian once said, in all its history, Rome deigned to fear two people; one was Hannibal, the other was a woman.
Karen Essex (Pharaoh (Kleopatra, #2))
So why write a book about an old ship that only a handful of people have ever heard of and even fewer could care anything about? Unlike most maritime subjects, the William Badger experienced no mutinies or revolts—like the Bounty or the Amistad. Although she indirectly provided inspiration for one of the most famous shipwreck poems in American literature, she herself was never wrecked—like the fictional Hesperus, the Pequod, or the non-fictional Nantucket whaleship Essex.
Peter Kurtz (Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865)