It is the sinner's dust-tongued bell claps me to churches When, with his torch and hourglass, like a sulphur priest,... His beast heel cleft in a sandal....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.... And a man who is puzzled and wonder...s thinks himself ignorant ...; therefore since they philosophized in order to escape from ignorance, evidently they were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After which you led me to water And bade me drink, which I did, owing to your kindness.... You would not let me out for two days and three nights, Bringing me books bound in wild thyme and scented wild grasses As if reading had any interest for me ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The catastrophe Buried in the stair carpet stayed there... And never corrupted anybody. And one day he grew up, and the horizon Stammered politely. The sky was like muslin. And still in the old house no one ever answered the bell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Hall, of Sherborne, was brought to bed yesterday of a dead child, some weeks before she was expected, owing to a... fright. I suppose that she happened unawares to look at her husband.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I knew that my vocation was found. I had received the call, and having done so, I was sure my work would be assigned me. Of some t...hings we feel quite certain. Inside there is a click, a kind of bell that strikes, when the hands of our destiny meet at the meridian hour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »