The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the worl...d, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[During the 1930s] ... they put Ming the Merciless in charge of designing California gas stations. Favoring the architecture of hi...s native Mongo, he cruised up and down the coast erecting raygun emplacements in white stucco. Lots of them featured superfluous central towers ringed with those strange radiator flanges that were a signature motif of the style, and made them look as though they might generate potent bursts of raw technological enthusiasm, if you could only find the switch to turn them on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And my spirit is grown to a lordly great compass within, That the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of ...>Glynn Will work me no fear like the fear they have wrought me of yore When length was failure, and when breadth was but bitterness sore, And when terror and shrinking and dreary unnamable pain Drew over me out of the merciless miles of the plain,-- Oh, now, unafraid, I am fain to face The vast sweet visage of space.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome.... Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Da...nte's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of h...umming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier,... Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire: I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moones sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »