I then went to the Parade. I saw the King. It was a glorious sight.... As a loadstone moves needles, or a storm bows the lofty oak...s, did Frederick the Great make the Prussian officers submissive bend as he walked majestic in the midst of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romanti...c, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And there were present the Picninnies,... and the Jobillies, and the Garyulies, and the great Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seekin...g for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What brought them there so far from their home, Cuchulain that fought night long with the foam,... What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower? Niamh that rode on it; lad and lass That sat so still and played at the chess? What but heroic wantonness?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower? And all alone comes riding there... The King that could make his people stare, Because he had feathers instead of hair. A slow low note and an iron bell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at least ...that might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »