Finely Crystalline

Famous quotes containing the words finely and/or crystalline:

    ““Lo, how finely the Graces can it foote
    To the instrument:
    They dauncen deffly, and singen soote,
    In their meriment.
    Wants not a fourth Grace, to make the daunce even?”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “While the stars that oversprinkle
    All the heavens, seem to twinkle
    With a crystalline delight;
    Keeping time, time, time,
    In a sort of Runic rhyme,
    To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
    From the bells, bells, bells, bells,”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)