Thou Art Manifest

Famous quotes containing the words thou art, thou, art and/or manifest:

“But thou art fled
Like some frail exhalation;”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“How thou faintest for thy children, torn from thy soil, to till a stranger’s.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)

“You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)