We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people wh...en we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off. All our passengers are paying strict attention to this thing, with the end in view which I have mentioned. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden that its fragrance may be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to h...is garden, and eat its choicest fruits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beaut...ies are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is part of a British man's constitution. His thoughts and beauties ar...e so spread abroad that one touches them every where, one is intimate with him by instinct.--No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays, without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for th...e above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I walked abroad in a snowy day; I asked the soft snow with me to play;... She played and she melted in all her prime, And the winter called it a dreadful crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »