Famous quotes containing the words harness and/or incident:
“O thou day o th world,
Chain mine armed neck, leap thou, attire and all,
Through proof of harness to my heart, and there
Ride on the pants triumphing!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I teazed him with fanciful apprehensions of unhappiness. A moth having fluttered round the candle, and burnt itself, he laid hold of this little incident to admonish me; saying, with a sly look, and in a solemn but quiet tone, That creature was its own tormentor, and I believe its name was BOSWELL.”
—James Boswell (17401795)
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