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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel (pt. I) I love it, I love it, and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old arm-chair? - Eliza Cook, Old Arm-Chair Joint-stools were then created; on three legs Upborne they stood. Three legs upholding firm A massy slab, in fashion square or round. On such a stool immortal Alfred sat. - William Cowper, Sofa (bk. I, l. 19) Ingenious Fancy, never better pleased Than when employ'd t' accommodate the fair, Heard the sweet moan of pity, and devised The soft settee; one elbow at each end, And in the midst an elbow it received, United yet divided, twain at once. - William Cowper, Task (bk. I, l. 71) Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last. - William Cowper, Task (bk. I, l. 86) A three-legged table, O ye fates! - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) When on my three-foot stool I sit and tell The warlike feats I have done, his spirits fly out Into my story; say 'Thus mine enemy fell, And thus I set my foot on's neck,' even then The princely blood flows in his cheek, he sweats, Strains his young nerves, and puts himself in posture That acts my words. - William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Belarius at III, iii) I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too-intimate contacts with my own furniture. - Frank Lloyd Wright
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