In a Kelton church, when a heated argument once began at morning services, a devout old deacon arose from his seat in the 'amen co...rner' and announced he was going to do for the church what the devil had never done--leave it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At last, on Monday the 16th of May, when I was sitting in Mr. Davies's back-parlour, after having drunk tea with him and Mrs. Davi...es, Johnson unexpectedly came into the shop; and Mr. Davies having perceived him through the glass-door in the room in which we were sitting, advancing towards us,--he announced his aweful approach to me, somewhat in the manner of an actor in the part of Horatio, when he addresses Hamlet on the appearance of his father's ghost, "Look, my Lord, it comes" ... Mr. Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, "Don't tell where I come from."M"From Scotland," cried Davies roguishly. "Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." I am willing to flatter myself that I meant this as light pleasantry to sooth and conciliate him, and not as an humiliating abasement at the expense of my country.... [W]ith that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression "come from Scotland," which I used in the sense of being of that country, and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it, retorted, "That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of t...hose candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immo...rtality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,... Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a subs...titute for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is suppose...d to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empir...e died.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empi...re died.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »