Darken Ship

Famous quotes containing the words darken and/or ship:

    I hate set dissertations,—and above all things in the world, ‘tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,
    The ship was still as she could be;
    Robert Southey (1774–1843)