Sir Thomas Elder

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    “Forget not yet the tried intent
    Of such a truth as I have meant;
    My great travail so gladly spent
    Forget not yet!”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time,
    Each form is exquisite, each block sublime.
    Or good, or bad,—disfigur’d, or deprav’d,—
    All art, is at its resurrection sav’d;
    All crown’d with glory in the critic’s heav’n,
    Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.”
    —Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)

    “The hunchback in the park
    A solitary mister
    Propped between trees and water.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Carthage must be destroyed.
    [Delenda est Carthago.]”
    —Marcus Porcius Cato The Elder (234–149 B.C.)