I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make ...a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This journal is a relief. When I am tired ... out comes this, and down goes every thing. But I can't read it over--and God knows w...hat contradictions it may contain. If I am sincere with myself (but I fear one lies more to one's self than to any one else) every page should confute, refute, and utterly abjure its predecessor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Return to her? and fifty men dismissed? No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose... To wage against the enmity o' th' air, To be a comrade with the wolf and owl-- Necessity's sharp pinch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth... By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But this rough magic I here abjure, and when I have required... Some heavenly music--which even now I do-- To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man of business ... goes on Sunday to the church with the regularity of the village blacksmith, there to renounce and abjure b...efore his God the line of conduct which he intends to pursue with all his might during the following week.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dange...rous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »