Ruff/description

Famous quotes containing the words ruff and/or description:

“My great brother
Lord of the Song
wears the ruff of
forest bear.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)