I was the intellectual equivalent of a 98-pound weakling. I would go to the beach and people would kick copies of Byron in my face....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?... To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the "superior morality" of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness ...to deny that this "superior morality" is properly rather an "inferior criminality" produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or ...another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall--which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management of ...external things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we ho...pe to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »