When the Wife of Hector, in Homer's Iliads [sic], discourses with her Husband about the Battel [sic] in which he was going to enga...ge, the Hero, desiring her to leave that Matter to his Care, bids her go to her Maids and mind her Spinning: By which the Poet intimates, that Men and Women ought to busie themselves in their proper Spheres, and on such Matters only as are suitable to their respective Sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are various forms of the disease which the victim is unable to say "No." Some of these forms are more serious than others, a...nd often lead to electrocution or marriage.... "No-phobia" reaches its height of futility when someone is giving you directions as to how to reach some place that you really want to reach.... The result is, I spend the night crashing up and down the wrong streets and am known as a boor who never arrives on time. And all because I didn't have the guts to say, "I haven't the slightest idea what you are talking about."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to ...believe otherwise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ossian reminds us of the most refined and rudest eras, of Homer, Pindar, Isaiah, and the American Indian. In his poetry, as in Hom...er's, only the simplest and most enduring features of humanity are seen, such essential parts of a man as Stonehenge exhibits of a temple; we see the circles of stone, and the upright shaft alone. The phenomena of life acquire almost an unreal and gigantic size seen through his mists. Like all older and grander poetry, it is distinguished by the few elements in the lives of its heroes. They stand on the heath, between the stars and the earth, shrunk to the bones and sinews. The earth is a boundless plain for their deeds. They lead such a simple, dry, and everlasting life, as hardly needs depart with the flesh, but is transmitted entire from age to age. There are but few objects to distract their sight, and their life is as unencumbered as the course of the stars they gaze at.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though for some time I have not spoken of the roaring of the breakers, and the ceaseless flux and reflux of the waves, yet they di...d not for a moment cease to dash and roar, with such a tumult that, if you had been there, you could scarcely have heard my voice the while; and they are dashing and roaring this very moment,--though it may be with less din and violence,--for there the sea never rests. We were wholly absorbed by this spectacle and tumult, and like Chryses, though in a different mood from him, we walked silent along the shore of the resounding sea ...--though I doubt if Homer's Mediterranean Sea ever sounded so loud as this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus has Homer proved his opinion of our poor sex--that the love of beauty is our most prevailing passion. It really grieves me to... think that there certainly must be reason for the insignificant opinion the greatest men have of women--at least I fear there must.--But I don't in fact believe it--thank God!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To "make a beeline" for something. That's worthy of being immort...al and is immortal in English idiom. "I guess I'll split" is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The attention of those who frequent the camp-meetings at Eastham is said to be divided between the preaching of the Methodists and... the preaching of the billows on the back side of the Cape, for they all stream over here in the course of their stay. I trust that in this case the loudest voice carries it. With what effect may we suppose the ocean to say, "My hearers!" to the multitude on the bank. On that side some John N. Maffit; on this, the Reverend Poluphloisboios Thalassa.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »