Mazy Quotes
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From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
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More Mazy Quotes
A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.
— 1914 'The Rolling English Road'.
Soon round us spread the hills and dales,Where GEOFFREY spun his magic tales,And call'd them history. The landWhence ARTHUR sprung, and all his bandOf gallant knights. Sire of romance,Who led the fancy's mazy dance,Thy tales shall please, thy name still be,When Time forgets my verse and me.
robert bloomfield— Book I
The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside,once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French school, and the sooner we recognize the fact, the better it will be for all the world, except perhaps the few writers who are far too committed to the old erroneous doctrines to allow for renunciation.
william stanley jevons— Preface To The Second Edition, p. 27-28
From Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled; Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay, And with the Tweed had travelled; And when we came to Clovenford, Then said "my winsome marrow," "Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside, And see the braes of Yarrow."
william wordsworth— Yarrow Unvisited, st. 1.
From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
thomas gray— Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy, I. 1, line 3.
From Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled; Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay, And with the Tweed had travelled; And when we came to Clovenford, Then said "my winsome marrow," "Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside, And see the braes of Yarrow."
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, Yarrow Unvisited.
