Liquid Mercury

Famous quotes containing the words liquid and/or mercury:

    What slender Youth bedew’d with liquid odours
    Courts thee on Roses in some pleasant Cave,
    Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)

    The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
    What instruments we have agree
    The day of his death was a dark cold day.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)