Oblique Cases

Famous quotes containing the words oblique and/or cases:

    Street lamps come out, and lean at corners, awry,
    Casting black shadows, oblique and intense....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)