Famous quotes containing the words enclosed, base and/or ring:
“The flame o th taper
Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids,
To see th enclosed lights, now canopied
Under these windows, white and azure laced
With blue of heavens own tinct.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (15471616)
“But whatever happens, wherever the scene is laid, somebody, somewhere, will quietly set outsomebody has already set out, somebody still rather far away is buying a ticket, is boarding a bus, a ship, a plane, has landed, is walking toward a million photographers, and presently he will ring at my doora bigger, more respectable, more competent Gradus.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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