Moonlight Cradle

Famous quotes containing the words moonlight and/or cradle:

    In the moonlight the shepherds,
    Soft lull’d by the rills,
    Lie wrapt in their blankets
    Asleep on the hills.
    Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.
    HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)