Verse Collection

Famous quotes containing the words verse and/or collection:

    “Thy spotless Muse, like Mary, did contain
    The boundless Godhead; she did well disdain
    That her eternal Verse employ’d should be
    On a less subject than Eternitie;”
    —Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)

    “Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.”
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)