"Premiership" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that if he had not gone to India he would have moved by strong, steady strides straight to the highest office that England could bestow. And others aver that when he was created a Peer in Eighteen Hundred Fifty-seven it was a move toward the Premiership, and that if his health had not failed he would surely have won the goal. But how futile it is to speculate on what might have happened had not this or ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... a loftier brow Ne'er shone in song or sonnet, His hair, a little scant, and when He doff'd his cap or bonnet, One saw that Grey had gone beyond A premiership upon it! ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood |
