It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is en...tirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have bathed, where none have seen us, In the lake and in the fountain,... Underneath the charmed statue Of the timid, bending Venus,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have very lately read the Prince of Abyssinia [Samuel Johnson's Rasselas]MI am almost equally charmed and shocked at it--the sty...le, the sentiments are inimitable--but the subject is dreadful--and, handled as it is by Dr. Johnson, might make any young, perhaps old, person tremble--O heavens! how dreadful, how terrible it is to be told by a man of his genius and knowledge, in so affectingly probable a manner, that true, real happiness is ever unattainable in this world!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope;... They threatened its life with a railway-share They charmed it with smiles and soap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar, ...and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the an...imals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time,... I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed in prime: "Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those green-rob'd senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,... Dream, and so dream all night without a stir,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown:... Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »