It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but wil...l not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as an ...infidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Adolescence, O Adolescence I wince before thine incandescence . . .... When anxious elders swarm about Crying "Where are you going?", thou answerest "Out," . . . Strewn! All is lost and nothing found Lord, how thou leavest things around! . . . Ah well, I must not carp and cavil I'll chew the spinach, spit out the gravel, Remembering how my heart has leapt At times when me thou didst accept Still, I'd like to be present, I must confess, When thine own adolescents adolesce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,... With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »