But Shakspeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic; but all is duly given; no veins, no curiosities: no cow-painter, no bird-...fancier, no mannerist is he: he has no discoverable egotism: the great he tells greatly; the small, subordinately. He is wise without emphasis or assertion; he is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort, and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs; a merit so incessant, that each reader is incredulous of the perception of other readers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill... of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Bok is giving the bird sanctuary as a tract of land at this place. He is dedicating it as a bird sanctuary and putting up thes...e bells to interest the birds in music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It could not have come down to us so far, Through the interstices of things ajar... On the long bead chain of repeated birth, To be a bird while we are men on earth,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bird would cease and be as other birds But that he knows in singing not to sing.... The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »