Blight/gallery

Famous quotes containing the words blight and/or gallery:

“It is the blight man was born for,”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)