Added Specimens

Famous quotes containing the words added and/or specimens:

“What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“A tattered copy of Johnson’s large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to “make up” verses.”
—Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)