Swelling

Famous quotes containing the word swelling:

“Civilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve;Mthe heart burnings, the jealousies, the social rivalries, the family dissensions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts of refined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate of human misery.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“Things out of perfection sail
And all their swelling canvas wear....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)