Song Originally Performed

Famous quotes containing the words song, originally and/or performed:

    “By a knight of ghosts and shadows
    I summon’d am to a tourney
    Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end:
    Methinks it is no journey.”
    —Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 57–60)

    “Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)