"Questor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disparagement. 470 We not all pleasures like the Stoics hate, But love and seek those which are moderate. (Though divine Plato thus of pleasures thought, They us, with hooks and baits, like fishes caught.) When Questor, to the gods in public halls I was the first who set up festivals. Not with high tastes our appetites did force, But fill'd with conversation and discourse; Which feasts, Convivial Meetings we did name: Not ...
— Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham • Edmund Waller; John Denham |
