text quotes

There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails.

- Robert Browning
  Dramatic Lyrics,'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister'.

If ever I should condescend to prose, I'll write poetical commandments, which Shall supersede beyond all doubt all those That went before; in these I shall enrich My text with many things that no one knows, And carry precept to the highest pitch: I'll call the work 'Longinus o'er a Bottle, Or, Every Poet his own Aristotle'.

-Rochdale
^24  Don Juan, canto1, stanza 204.

Le plagiat est la base de toutes les litte  ratures, excepte   de la premie'  re, qui d'ailleurs est inconnue. Plagiarism is the base of all literature except the first text which, however, is unknown.

- (Hippolyte) Jean Giraudoux
  Siegfried et le Limousin.

Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.

-Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.81^4.

I think you will like them, when you shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Sir Benjamin Backbite, of his love elegies to Maria. The School for Scandal, act1, sc.1.

But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'Merlin andVivien', l.667^9.

We will listen to the wind's text Blown through the roof, or the thrush's song In the thick bush that proved him wrong, Wrong from the start, for nature's truth Is primary and her changing seasons Correct out of a vaster reason The vague errors of the flesh.

- R(onald) S(tuart) Thomas
  'The Minister'.

His career was a text book example of the rise of a patrician in the snug embrace of the American establishment.

-Time
Of Dean Acheson. 25 Oct.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English speaking audiences.

- Edith Newbold ne  e Jones Wharton
  TheAge of Innocence, bk.1, ch.1.

Not 'Seeing is Believing', you ninny, but 'Believing is Seeing'.For modernart has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.

-Tom (Thomas Kennerley) Wolfe
  The PaintedWord, ch.1.