Dungeon/etymology

Famous quotes containing the words dungeon and/or etymology:

    The brook was thrown
    Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
    In fetid darkness still to live and run....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
    Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)