"Maia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of action, of character, and so far of imagination, but there is exquisite fancy. All is soft and fleshy, without bone or muscle. We see in him the youth without the manhood of poetry. His genius breathed 'vernal delight and joy.' 'Like Maia's son he stood and shook his plumes,' with fragrance filled. His mind was redolent of spring. He had not the fierceness of summer, nor the richness of autumn, and winter he seemed not to have known till he felt the icy hand ...
— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt
... "Not Maia's son, with wings for ears, Such plumes about his visage wears, Nor Milton's six-winged angel gathers ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier |
