Orbs Quotes
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.
1596-7 Lorenzo to Jessica.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 5, sc.1, l.58-61.
James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.474, e-artnow
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
'Opticks' (1730 ed.) bk. 3, pt. 1, qu. 28
Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”
Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.24, Cambridge University Press