Tempered Scale

Famous quotes containing the words tempered and/or scale:

    “Never durst poet touch a pen to write
    Until his ink were tempered with love’s sighs.
    O then his lines would ravish savage ears,
    And plant in tyrants mild humility.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “With a defeated joy,
    With an auspicious, and a dropping eye,
    With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,
    In equal scale weighing delight and dole.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)