A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications whi...ch I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make th...is molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the storm rattles my windowpane I'll stay hunched at my desk, it will roar in vain... For I'll have plunged deep inside the thrill Of conjuring spring with the force of my will, Coaxing the sun from my heart, and building here Out of my fiery thoughts, a tepid atmosphere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Determined to place the letter On the unassassinated president's desk... So that a stamp could reproduce all this In detail ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel the carousel starting slowly And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,... Photographs of friends, the window and the trees Merging in one neutral band that surrounds Me on all sides, everywhere I look.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Worry and brown desk Stain it by infusion. There aren't enough tags at the end,... And the grove is blind, blossoming, but we are too porous to hear it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used ins...tead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from t...hat tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is--One Who Killed Our Lord.... And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »