Quote #46
Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
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- O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
- As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.
- Such as may make thee search the coffers round.
- That old man eloquent.
- Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to poss…
- That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.
- For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for lib…
- License they mean when they cry, Liberty! For who loves that must first be wise and good.