Paul Moon James

Paul Moon James (1780–1854) was a successful English banker, as well as a poet, and lawyer, who also served for a time as magistrate of Worcestershire and later as High Bailiff of Birmingham, England.

Quotes

• The scene was more beautiful far to the eye
  Than if day in its pride had arrayed it.
  • The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,—
  That star of life's tremulous ocean.
  • The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

External links

• WorldCat page