"Foule" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... soeuer is not agreeable with his principle, is foule and naught. For take away order and rule, and what thing can any man make, eyther beautifull to the eye, or of commendable proportion and durable: then it must needes follow, that the cause of such inconuenient ...
— Hypnerotomachia - The Strife of Loue in a Dreame • Francesco Colonna
... p. 97) says: "Having brought a large shallop with them out of England, stowed in quarters in ye ship they now gott her out and sett their carpenters to worke to trime her up: but being much brused and shatered in ye ship with foule weather, they saw she sould be longe in mending." In 'Mourt's Relation' he says: "Monday, the 13th of November, we unshipped our shallop and drew her on land to mend and repair her, having been forced to cut her down, ...
— The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete • Azel Ames
... good Sir Gawaine, My sister's son ye be; The loathly lady's all too grim, And all too foule for thee." ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch
... carry that opinion with it; 'Twill seeme more foule and come from private malice. Brutus and they, to right the common cause, Did ...
— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various
... has never even been to Venice or thought of Veronese. He has not always been so successful; as when in his "Work" he earned Degas's acute comment: "A crowd is made with five persons, not with fifty." ("Il y a cinquante figures, mais je ne vois pas la foule; on fait une foule avec cinq, et non pas avec cinquante.") But he has always been someone. Compare with him L'Hermitte, a painter who illustrates sometimes the possibility of being an artificial realist. His "Vintage" at the Metropolitan Museum, his "Harvesters" at the Luxembourg, ...
— French Art - Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture • W. C. Brownell
... words, you may take advantage thereof; and you shall see how we will hamper him: warrant you he shall fetch an errand to London, & beare part of your charges too. After the game hath beene brought in by this Winlesse, the poore foule is bound not to release his aduersarie, without his Attournies consent, who plieth the matter with so good a stomack, as hee eateth the kernell, whilest they fight about the shell. At last, when the fountain of his Clients purse is drawne drie, by ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew
... sits ugly Barbarisme, And brutish Ignorance, ycrept of late Out of dredd darknes of the deepe Abysme, Where being bredd, he light and heaven does hate: They in the mindes of men now tyrannize, And the faire Scene with rudenes foule disguize. ...
— Spenser - (English Men of Letters Series) • R. W. Church |
