Famous quotes containing the words drew and/or passed:
“Desponding Phyllis was endud
With evry Talent of a Prude,
She trembled when a Man drew near;
Salute her, and she turnd her Ear:
If oer against her you were placd
She durst not look above your Waist;”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)
“A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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