Small Body

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or body:

    “Adultery? Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery!
    No, the wren goes to’t, and the small gilded fly
    Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “but as an Eagle
    His cloudless thunderbolted on thir heads.
    So vertue giv’n for lost,
    Deprest, and overthrown, as seem’d,
    Like that self-begott’n bird
    In the Arabian woods embost,
    That no second knows nor third,
    And lay e’re while a Holocaust,
    From out her ashie womb now teem’d
    Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most
    When most unactive deem’d,
    And though her body die, her fame survives,
    A secular bird ages of lives.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)