Thomas Russell (poet)

Thomas Russell (1762 – 31 July 1788) was an English poet from Beaminster, Dorset.

Quotes

• When each points out a different way,
     What mediums shall we keep?
  The text invites to watch and pray,
     The priest himself, to sleep.
  • "On a Bad Sermon, from the Text 'Watch and Pray'"; reported in William Davenport Adams (ed.) English Epigrams (London, [1878]), p. 102
  • Cf. George Outram