Most women of [the WW II] generation have but one image of good motherhood--the one their mothers embodied. . . . Anything done "f...or the sake of the children" justified, even ennobled the mother's role. Motherhood was tantamount to martyrdom during that unique era when children were gods. Those who appeared to put their own needs first were castigated and shunned--the ultimate damnation for a gender trained to be wholly dependent on the acceptance and praise of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Emperor Joseph II: Your work is ingenious. It's quality work, and there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and ...it will be perfect. Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, majesty?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don Pedro. You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. Beatrice. So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I shou...ld prove the mother of fools.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don Pedro. To be merry best becomes you; for, out o' question, you were born in a merry hour. Beatrice. No, sure, my lord, my... mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under than was I born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don Pedro. Will you have me, lady? Beatrice. No, my lord, unless I might have another for working-days: your grace is too cos...tly to wear every day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don Pedro. But when shall we set the savage bull's horns on the sensible Benedick's head? Claudio. Yes, and text underneath, ..."Here dwells Benedick, the married man?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don Pedro. Officers, what offence have these men done? Dogberry. Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover they ...have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Blake and Goethe were individualists par excellence, uncompromisingly protective of their single vision. In both Faust Part II and... The Four Zoas, emphasis on the universality of the poet's message contrasts with the resistant texture of a compressed style and the striking complexity of the mythological machinery. Blake likes to emphasize that he is not writing for the simple-minded; Goethe takes a teasing pleasure in keeping philologists busy. Faust and The Four Zoas are dramatic epics of Humanity, but embodied in a mythic language whose uniqueness and quirkiness are jealously guarded. Blake never published The Four Zoas, though it culminates his early prophecies and provides the indispensable key to the later ones. And Goethe refused to allow Faust Part II to be printed in its entirety until after his death. Both poets postponed the public's discovery of their central works; secrecy was enforced as long as it could be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »