I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience--it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the mo...rning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If American has points of inferiority to English, they are merely matters of degree; if the Americans are, as Oliver Wendell Holme...s said in 1858, "the Romans of the modern world--the great assimilating people," the English are only to an exceedingly limited degree its Greeks. They are tarred too much with the same brush of pragmatism, democracy, industrialism, and materialism for deep cleavage. Even America is not wholly democratic culturally; there are remarkable enclaves of aristocratic culture in the cosmopolitan and tradition-bound society of the Eastern seaboard, whose members look east toward Europe far more than they look west towards the heartland of Americanism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light;... In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your Beauty, ripe, and calm, and fresh, As Eastern Summers are,... Must now, forsaking Time and Flesh, Add light to some small Star.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to... the ground while trying to board the six o'clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening,... The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral ...images and trophies gathered from afar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Natives of another hemisphere, they beheld, with curiosity, all the pleasing features of the American forest. The landscape before... them was fair, if it was strange and rude. The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as theirs with its humble beauty. The useful pine lifted its cones into the frosty air. The maple, which is already making the forest gay with its orange hues, reddened over those houseless men. The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of the adventure westward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does not... concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »