He saw Mr. Lincoln but once; at the melancholy function called an Inaugural Ball. Of course he looked anxiously for a sign of char...acter. He saw a long, awkward figure; a plain, ploughed face; a mind, absent in part, and in part evidently worried by white kid gloves; features that expressed neither self-satisfaction nor any other familiar Americanism, but rather the same painful sense of becoming educated and of needing education that tormented a private secretary, above all a lack of apparent force. Any private secretary in the least fit for his business would have thought, as Adams did, that no man living needed so much education as the new President but that all the education he could get would not be enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of thin...gs without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piec...e of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a room on the floor below, Sunless, cooler--a brimming... Saucer of wax, marbly and dim-- I have lit what's left of my life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successivel...y, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; Mbut when a beginning is made--when felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt--it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She represents the unavowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity--and infidelity of a very special kind, w...hich would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the "woman of wax" whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment ...in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With pictures full, of wax and of wool, Their livers I stick with needles quick;... There lacks but the blood to make up the flood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Blackberries Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes... Ebon in the hedges, fat With blue-red juices. These they squander on my fingers. I had not asked for such a blood sisterhood; they must love me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »