fan quotes

Here she comes i'faith full sail, with her fan spread and streamers out, and a shoal of fools for tenders. Congreve University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

-William Congreve
  Of Mirabell. The Way of the World, act 2, sc.5. 1695  Tattle to  Jeremy. Love for Love, act 5, sc.3.

'Tis thou, alone, who with thy mystic fan, Work'st more than Wisdom, Art, or Nature can, To rouse the sacred madness; and awake The frost-bound-blood, and spirits; and to make Them frantic with thy raptures, flashing through The soul, like lightning, and as active too.

- Robert Herrick
  'His Fare-well to Sack'.