Hollow Powers

Famous quotes containing the words hollow and/or powers:

    “Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day’s wine to La Guillotine.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “... when I exclaim against novels, I mean when contrasted with those works which exercise the understanding and regulate the imagination.—For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers ...”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)