"Masker" Quotes from Famous Books
... men, That builde your blis on hope of earthly thing, And vainly thinke your selves halfe happie then, When painted faces with smooth flattering 200 Doo fawne on you, and your wide praises sing; And, when the courting masker louteth* lowe, Him true in heart and trustie to you trow! [* ... — The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser
... masker!" she cried, stamping her foot with rage. "You, Jonker van Zonshoven, come from the Hague, a town full of maskers, to tell me this, me whose chief defect or merit—which you like—is to have broken with all social hypocrisies, me whose chief ... — Major Frank • A. L. G. Bosboom-Toussaint |