The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

3.26 Al Capp (Alfred Gerard Caplin) 1907-79
A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
On abstract art, in ‘National Observer’ 1 July 1963.
3.27 Marquis Domenico Caracciolo 1715-89
Il y a en Angleterre soixante sectes religieuses diffèrentes, et une seule sauce.
In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.
Attributed in ‘Notes and Queries’ December 1968
3.28 Ethna Carbery (Anna MacManus) 1866-1902
Oh, Kathaleen Ní Houlihan, your road’s a thorny way,
And ’tis a faithful soul would walk the flints with you for aye,
Would walk the sharp and cruel flints until his locks grew grey.
‘The Passing of the Gael’ (1902)
3.29 Richard Carew 1555-1620
Will you have all in all for prose and verse? take the miracle of our age,
Sir Philip Sidney.
William Camden ‘Remains concerning Britain’ (1614) ‘The Excellency of the English Tongue’
3.30 Thomas Carew c.1595-1640
He that loves a rosy cheek,
Or a coral lip admires,
Or, from star-like eyes, doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires;
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.
‘Disdain Returned’
The Muses’ garden with pedantic weeds
O’erspread, was purged by thee; the lazy seeds
Of servile imitation thrown away,
And fresh invention planted.
‘An Elegy upon the Death of Dr John Donne’
Here lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit
The universal monarchy of wit.
‘An Elegy upon the Death of Dr John Donne’
The purest soul that e’er was sent
Into a clayey tenement.
‘Epitaph On the Lady Mary Villiers’