Bentley Wood High

Famous quotes containing the words bentley and/or high:

    “Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and alteration; some words go off, and become obsolete; others are taken in, and by degrees grow into common use; or the same word is inverted to a new sense or notion, which in tract of time makes an observable change in the air and features of a language, as age makes in the lines and mien of a face.”
    —Richard Bentley (1662–1742)

    “And hearts that once beat high for praise
    Now feel that pulse no more!”
    —Thomas Moore (1779–1852)