Famous quotes containing the words double and/or descent:
“He does me double wrong
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
““There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)