Lay

Famous quotes containing the word lay:

“Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me,—a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses, and I did not like to feel the horizon shutting me in, even to so pleasant a corner as this.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)

“But he lay like a warrior taking his rest
With his martial cloak around him.”
—Charles Wolfe (1791–1823)