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• Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song.
  -- Edmund Spenser (1553-1599) -- The Faerie Queene, Introduction, St. 1...
• LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire....
• But you shall not escape my iambics.
• Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh. -- Earl of Chesterfield
• Nearer, my God, to Thee! Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me, Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee!
  Nearer to Thee!...
• Whene'er I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see!
  What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me?...
• In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without a scandal.
  BAGEHOT...
• He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
  -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Character of Bolingbroke...
• I shall explain this by waving my hands about in an appropriate manner.