Famous quotes containing the words infant and/or island:
“Timely blossom, Infant fair,
Fondling of a happy pair,”
—Ambrose Philips (1675–1749)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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