"A hungry imposter practising for a mess of pottage."
--Carlyle.
| The Money-Changers in the Temple. | [237 L.J.] |
"Once more
He may put forth his hand 'gainst such, as drive
Their traffic in that sanctuary, whose walls
With miracles and martyrdoms were built."
--Dante, Divine Comedy.
| More Precious than Rubies. | [252 S.A.] |
"The drawing . . . is . . . a thing which I
believe Gainsborough would have given one of
his own pictures for--old-fashioned as red-tipped
daisies are . . . and more precious than rubies."
--Ruskin, Academy Notes.
| The Mote and Beam. | [110 L.J.] |
"You found his mote; the king your mote did see.
But I a beam do find in each of three."