mouths quotes

It is the gloryand good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine, at least.

- Robert Browning
^9  The Ring and the Book, bk.12, l.838^40.

   Auld Reikie! wale o' ilka town That Scotland kens beneath the moon; Whare couthy chiels at e'ening meet Their bizzing craigs and mous to weet.

- Edna Ferber
  'Auld Reikie,  A Poem'.

   You stars that reigned at my nativity, Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mist, Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud, That when you vomit forth into the air, My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths, So that my soul may but ascend to heaven.

- Christopher Marlowe
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act 5, sc.2.

Blind mouths! that scarcethemselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

-John Milton
  Lycidas, l.119^20.

That grounded maxim So rife and celebrated in the mouths Of wisest men; that to the public good Private respects must yield.

-John Milton
Samson  Agonistes, l.865^8.