To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul,... to give it its final blow ... the coup de grâce for the painter as well as for the picture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was so sick and faint, so overcome at the brutality of this fiendish sport, that I hardly heard the shouts of "Bravo! bravo!" an...d the fanfaronade of trumpets.... I do not know which astonished me the most, the strikingly curious, brilliant coup d'oeil, the dexterity of the men, the intrepidity of the animals, the miserable unfair play, or the pleasure of the spectators.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just before reaching the lighthouse, we saw the sun set in the Bay,--for standing on that narrow cape was, as I have said, like be...ing on the deck of a vessel, or rather at the masthead of a man-of-war, thirty miles at sea, though we knew that at the same moment the sun was setting behind our native hills, which were just below the horizon in that direction. This sight drove everything else quite out of our heads, and Homer and the Ocean came in again with a rush,-- Ev d' epes' Okeanoi lampron phaos eelioio, the shining torch of the sun fell into the ocean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My ghostly fadir, I me confess, First to God and then to you... That at a window (wot ye how) I stole a kiss of great sweetness,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »