Famous quotes containing the words land and/or purchase:
“I traveld thro’ a Land of Men
A Land of Men & Women too,
And heard & saw such dreadful things
As cold Earth wanderers never knew.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“How happy a thing were a wedding,
And a bedding,
If a man might purchase a wife
For a twelvemonth and a day;”
—Thomas Flatman (1637–1688)