Final Long Vowels

Famous quotes containing the words final, long and/or vowels:

    “The final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “Nor now the long light on the sea—
    And here face downward in the sun
    To feel how swift how secretly
    The shadow of the night comes on . . .”
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    “As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)