Fits/images

Famous quotes containing the words fits and/or images:

“What I behold are feverish fits of strife,
‘Twixt fears of dying and desire of life:”
—George Crabbe (1754–1832)

“Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilised people is poetical.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)