I teazed him with fanciful apprehensions of unhappiness. A moth having fluttered round the candle, and burnt itself, he laid hold ...of this little incident to admonish me; saying, with a sly look, and in a solemn but quiet tone, "That creature was its own tormentor, and I believe its name was BOSWELL."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The conqueror at least; who, ere Time renders His last award, will have the long grass grow... Above his burnt-out brain and sapless cinders. If I might augur, I should rate but low Their chances: they are too numerous, like the thirty Mock tyrants, when Rome's annals wax'd but dirty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded... That all the Apostles would have done as they did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;... The city to the soldier's rage resigned; Successless wars, and poverty behind; Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores, And the rash hunter strangled by the boars; The newborn babe by nurses overlaid; And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O do not grieve for a torn earth... barren fields burnt forests cracked riven volcano-broken hill-slopes islands shrunken mountains lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slaughter before, fragment of burnt meat,... deep mystery, grapple of mind to reach the tense thought, power and wealth, purpose and prayer alike, (men, fires, feasts, temple steps) useless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »