Famous quotes containing the words chief, constable and/or sir:
“Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:Min the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)