Seventeenth Quotes

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I`ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it`s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I`m trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.