The woman who is rearing a family of children; the woman who labors in the schoolroom; the woman who, in her retired chamber, earn...s, with her needle, the mite, which contributes to the intellectual and moral elevation of her Country; even the humble domestic, whose example and influence may be moulding and forming young minds, while her faithful services sustain a prosperous domestic state;Meach and all may be animated by the consciousness, that they are agents in accomplishing the greatest work that ever was committed to human responsibility. It is the building of a glorious temple, whose base shall be coextensive with the bounds of the earth, whose summit shall pierce the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands; and those who hew the lowliest stone, as much as those who carve the highest capital, will be equally honored, when its top-stone shall be laid, with new rejoicings of the morning stars, and shoutings of the sons of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy ...learns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be great, carve deep your heel-marks. The states of the next age will no doubt remember you, and edge... their love of freedom with contempt of luxury.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,... Not hew him as a carcase fit for hounds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is most true, what we call Cupid's dart An image is, which for ourselves we carve... And, fools, adore in temple of our heart,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poets that lasting Marble seek Must carve in Latine or in Greek,... We write in Sand, our Language grows, And like the Tide our work o'erflows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »