Famous quotes containing the word swelling:
“We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions—the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“Things out of perfection sail
And all their swelling canvas wear....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)