Logo
...have the same Use with Burning-Glasses, to collect the diffus'd

…have the same Use with Burning-Glasses, to collect the diffus’d Rays of Wit and Learning in Authors, and make them point with Warmth and Quickness upon the Reader’s Imagination. – Jonathan Swift, “A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet: Together With a Proposal fo

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Quotations
category

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011

Category:
Quotations

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. – Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927)

Category:
Quotations

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

Category:
Quotations

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have “quotation” thrust upon them. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. – Mayim Bialik

Category:
parenting

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it. – Horace

Category:
Fear

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? – Arthur Erickson

Category:
architecture

After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved. – Italian Proverb

Category:
Solutions