Imperial Armour Volume

Famous quotes containing the words imperial, armour and/or volume:

    “The imperial multiplicatornothing can nonplus:
    My mother Nature is the origin of it all.”
    —George Barker (b. 1913)

    “Saint, do you weep? I hear amid the thunder
    The Fenian horses; armour torn asunder;
    Laughter and cries. The armies clash and shock,
    And now the daylight-darkening ravens flock.
    Cease, cease, O mournful, laughing Fenian horn!”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)