What do women want with votes, when they hold the sceptre of influence with which they can control even votes, if they wield it ar...ight?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,... In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what has been done in a remote age, by men whose names... have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must underst...and what we are praying for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Loose me from tears, and make me see aright How each hath back what once he stayed to weep;... Homer his sight, David his little lad!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fairy. Those that "Hobgoblin" call you, and "Sweet Puck," You do their work, and they shall have good luck.... Are not you he? Puck. Thou speakest aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright, methi...nks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were several canal-boats ... passing through the locks, for which we waited. In the forward part of one stood a brawny New H...ampshire man, leaning on his pole, bareheaded and in shirt and trousers only, a rude Apollo of a man, coming down from "that vast uplandish country" to the main; of nameless age, with flaxen hair and vigorous, weather-bleached countenance, in whose wrinkles the sun still lodged, as little touched by the heats and frosts and withering cares of life as a maple of the mountain; an undressed, unkempt, uncivil man, with whom we parlayed awhile, and parted not without a sincere interest in one another. His humanity was genuine and instinctive, and his rudeness only a manner. He inquired, just as we were passing out of earshot, if we had killed anything, and we shouted after him that we had shot a buoy, and could see him for a long while scratching his head in vain to know if he had heard aright.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »