Mercury Delay Lines

Famous quotes containing the words mercury, delay and/or lines:

    “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)

    “Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.”
    —St. Augustine (354–430)

    “Child of Light! thy limbs are burning
    Through the vest which seems to hide them;
    As the radiant lines of morning
    Through the clouds ere they divide them;
    And this atmosphere divinest
    Shrouds thee wheresoe’er thou shinest.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)