Wind Correction Angle

Famous quotes containing the words wind, correction and/or angle:

    “Come away, away children;
    Come children, come down!
    The hoarse wind blows coldly;
    Lights shine in the town.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)