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Andrew Marvell
65 quotes
“No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out their place.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) first seen 1651 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Upon Appleton House, stanza 2 (1651)
“What need of all this marble crust T’impark the wanton mote of dust.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A stately frontispiece of poor Adorns without the open door: Nor less the rooms within commends Daily new furniture of friends. The House was built upon the place Only as for a mark of grace; And for an inn to entertain Its lord a while, but not remain.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh thou, that dear and happy isle The garden of the world ere while, Thou paradise of four seas, Which heaven planted us to please, But, to exclude the world, did guard With watery if not flaming sword; What luckless apple did we taste, To make us mortal, and thee waste?”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For he did, with his utmost skill, Ambition weed, but conscience till: Conscience, that heaven-nursèd plant, Which most our earthy gardens want. A prickling leaf it bears, and such As that which shrinks at every touch; But flowers eternal, and divine, That in the crowns of saints do shine.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And now to the abyss I pass Of that unfathomable grass, Where men like grasshoppers appear, But grasshoppers are giants there: They, in their squeaking laugh, contemn Us as we walk more low than them: And, from the precipices tall Of the green spires, to us do call.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unhappy birds! what does it boot To build below the grass’s root, When lowness is unsafe as height, And chance o’ertakes, what ’scapeth spite?”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“’Tis not what once it was, the world, But a rude heap together hurled.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But now the salmon-fishers moist Their leathern boats begin to hoist; And, like Antipodes in shoes, Have shod their heads in their canoes. How tortoise-like, but not so slow, These rational amphibii go!”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O, who shall from this dungeon raise A soul enslaved so many ways? With bolts of bones, that fettered stands In feet, and manacled in hands; Here blinded with an eye, and there Deaf with the drumming of an ear; A soul hung up, as 'twere, in chains Of nerves, and arteries, and veins; Tortured, besides each other part, In a vain head, and double heart?”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Popery is such a thing as cannot, but for want of a word to express it, be called a religion; nor is it to be mentioned with that civility which is otherwise decent to be used in speaking about the differences of human opinion about divine matters...There has now for divers years a design been carried on, to change the lawful government of England into an absolute tyranny, and to convert the established Protestant religion into downright Popery...If under his present Majesty we have as yet seen no more visible effects of the same spirit than the firing of London...it is not to be attributed to the good nature or better principles of that sect, but to the wisdom of his Holiness, who observes that we are not of late so dangerous Protestants as to deserve any special mark of his indignation, but that we may be made better use of to the wrecking of those that are of our religion, and that if he do not disturb us, there are those amongst ourselves that are leading us into a fair way of reconciliation with him.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) first seen 1677 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England [1677] (reprinted in State Tracts: Volume I (1692), pp. 69 ff.)
“Orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Annihilating all that 's made To a green thought in a green shade.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“So much one man can do, That does both act and know.”
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) said by 1678 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source