"Curtal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... word seems to convey some hint at the longanimity of the virtue. Consider what a poor curtal we have made of Ocean. There was something of his heave and expanse in o-ce-an, and Fletcher knew how to use it when he wrote so fine a verse as the second of these, the ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell |
