Antique/definition

Famous quotes containing the words antique and/or definition:

    None will now find Cupid latent
    By this foolish antique patent.
    He came late along the waste,
    Shod like a traveller for haste.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places. The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)