Quote #8
To make a bank was a great plot of state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
More from Andrew Marvell
- No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out their place.
- This indigested vomit of the Sea, Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.
- The world in all doth but two nations bear - The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
- The inglorious arts of peace.
- While thus he threw his Elbow round, Depopulating all the Ground, And, with his whistling Sythe, does cut Each stroke between the Earth and…
- He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try.
- How should I avoid to be her slave, Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath My fetters of the very air I breath?
- But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed.