The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all... ages of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, father...s, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nouns of number, or multitude, such as Mob, Parliament, Rabble, House of Commons, Regiment, Court of King's Bench, Den of Thieves,... and the like.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A potent quack, long versed in human ills, Who first insults the victim whom he kills;... Whose murd'rous hand a drowsy bench protect, And whose most tender mercy is neglect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals ha...ve been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is... usually the other way round.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
poems direct as what the birds said, hard as a floor, sound as a bench,... mysterious as the silence when the tailor would pause with his needle in the air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is in this impossibility of attaining to a synthesis of the inner life and the outward that the inferiority of the biographer t...o the novelist lies. The biographer quite clearly sees Peel, say, seated on his bench while his opponents overwhelm him with perhaps undeserved censure. He sees him motionless, miserable, his head bent on his breast. He asks himself: "What is he thinking?" and he knows nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold? ...... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »