Heap

Famous quotes containing the word heap:

    Mortality, behold, and fear,
    What a change of flesh is here!
    Think how many royal bones
    Sleep within this heap of stones,
    Hence removed from beds of ease,
    Dainty fare, and what might please,
    Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)

    Squalor spreads its hideous length
    through the carts and the asses’ feet,
    squalor coils and reopens
    and creeps under barrow
    and heap of refuse....
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)