Famous quotes containing the words enclosed, base and/or ring:
“The flame o th taper
Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids,
To see th enclosed lights, now canopied
Under these windows, white and azure laced
With blue of heavens own tinct.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“He will not idly dance at his work who has wood to cut and cord before nightfall in the short days of winter; but every stroke will be husbanded, and ring soberly through the wood; and so will the strokes of that scholars pen, which at evening record the story of the day, ring soberly, yet cheerily, on the ear of the reader, long after the echoes of his axe have died away.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)