"Momus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the quicker is the wit; The more it writes, the better to be 'steemed. By labour ought men's wills and wits be deem'd, Though dreaming dunces do inveigh against it. But write thou on, though Momus sit and frown; A Carter's jig is fittest for a clown. Bonum quo communius ...
— Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 • Arthur Acheson
... themselves in this temple of Momus, and observing that its peculiar arrangement of sunshine made their complexions look as though they had been dead a few days, Gospeler SIMPSON and the Flowerpot involuntarily spoke in whispers ...
— Punchinello Vol. 2, No. 28, October 8, 1870 • Various
... be they well worthy for to haue which in well doing do contende. No vertuous dede or zelous worke can want due prayse of the honest, though faulting fooles and youthly heades full ofte do chaunt the faultles checke, that Momus mouth did once finde out in Venus slipper. And yet from faultes I wyll not purge the same, but whatsoeuer they seme to be, they be in number ne yet in substaunce such, but that thy curteous dealing may sone amende them or forget ...
— The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 • William Painter
... Momus, son of Nox, blamed Vulcan, because, in making the human form, he had not placed a window in the breast for ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer |
