Famous quotes containing the words sir and/or ayton:
“Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time,
Each form is exquisite, each block sublime.
Or good, or bad,—disfigur’d, or deprav’d,—
All art, is at its resurrection sav’d;
All crown’d with glory in the critic’s heav’n,
Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.”
—Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)
“And I shall sigh, when some will smile,
To see thy love to every one
Hath brought thee to be loved by none.”
—Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638)