Silver Latin

Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or latin:

    ‘Guess now who holds thee?’—‘Death,’ I said. But,
    there,
    The silver answer rang, . . . ‘Not Death, but Love.’
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    OUR Latin books in motly row,
    Invite us to our task—
    Gay Horace, stately Cicero:
    Yet there’s one verb, when once we know,
    No higher skill we ask:
    This ranks all other lore above—
    We’ve learned “’Amare’ means ‘to love’!”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)