Web

Famous quotes containing the word web:

    “If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.”
    —Walter Pater (1839–1894)

    “There she weaves by night and day
    A magic web with colours gay.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)