Famous quotes containing the words eastern and/or block:
“The Eastern steamboat passed us with music and a cheer, as if they were going to a ball, when they might be going toDavys locker.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time,
Each form is exquisite, each block sublime.
Or good, or bad,disfigurd, or depravd,
All art, is at its resurrection savd;
All crownd with glory in the critics heavn,
Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.”
—Martin Archer, Sir Shee (17691850)