Famous quotes containing the words net, base and/or class:
“The history of literaturetake the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,all the rest being variation of these.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Study is like the heavens glorious sun,
That will not be deep searched with saucy looks;
Small have continual plodders ever won,
Save base authority from others books.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
Related Phrases
Related Words