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Famous quotes containing the words rear and/or sight:

    You do not come dramatically, with dragons
    That rear up with my life between their paws
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Earth has not anything to show more fair:
    Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
    A sight so touching in its majesty:
    This city now doth, like a garment, wear
    The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
    Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie
    Open unto the fields and to the sky;
    All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)