For your God of dream or devil You will answer, not to me.... Talk about the pews and steeples And the Cash that goes therewith! But the souls of Christian peoples . . . Chuck it, Smith!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnis...h, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge th...e personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lieth the worthy warrior Who never bloodied sword;... Here lieth the noble counsellor, Who never held his word. Here lieth his Excellency, Who ruled all the state; Here lieth the Earl of Leicester, Whom all the world did hate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I thought of her grave below the hill, Which the sentinel cypress tree stands over,... And I thought, "Were she only living still, How I could forgive her, and love her!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the one bird singing alone to his nest, And the one star over the tower.... I thought of our little quarrels and strife, And the letter that brought me back my ring; And it all seem'd then, in the waste of life,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
George the First was always reckoned Vile, but viler George the Second;... And what mortal ever heard Any good of George the Third? When from earth the Fourth descended (God be praised!) the Georges ended.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they the ...same education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves.... Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »