Free Breaking Length

Famous quotes containing the words free, breaking and/or length:

    I struck the board, and cried, “No more.
    I will abroad.”
    What? Shall I ever sigh and pine?
    My lines and life are free; free as the road,
    Loose as the wind, as large as store.
    Shall I be still in suit?
    George Herbert (1593–1633)

    The breaking waves dashed high
    On a stern and rock-bound coast,
    Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783–1835)

    Your length in clay’s now competent,
    A long war disturbed your mind;
    John Webster (c. 1580–1638)