Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; what... we object to is his crucifying his wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though of erect nature, man is far above the plants. For man's superior part, his head, is turned toward the superior part of the ...world, and his inferior part is turned toward the inferior world; and therefore he is perfectly disposed as to the general situation of his body. Plants have the superior part turned towards the lower world, since their roots correspond to the mouth, and their inferior parts towards the upper world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ye Cupids, droop each little head, Nor let your wings with joy be spread:... My Lesbia's favourite bird is dead, Whom dearer than her eyes she loved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even Lust the Master of a hardned Face, Blushes if thou beest in the place,... To darkness' Curtains he retires, In Sympathizing Night he rowls his smoaky Fires.
When, Goddess, thou liftst up thy wakened Head, Out of the Mornings purple bed, Thy Quire of Birds about thee play, And all the joyful world salutes the rising day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fair Hope! our earlier Heaven! by thee Young Time is taster to Eternity.... The generous wine with age grows strong, not sour, Nor need we kill thy fruit to smell thy flower. Thy golden head never hangs down Till in the lap of Love's full noon It falls and dies: Oh no, it melts away As doth the dawn into the day, As lumps of sugar lose themselves, and twine Their subtle essence with the soul of wine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... what a family is without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I thi...nk, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason--you could reckon the rati...on as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »