[A toad-eater] is a metaphor taken from a mountebank's boy who eats toads in order to show his master's skill in expelling poison.... It is built on a supposition (which I am afraid is too generally true) that people who are so unhappy as to be in a state of dependence are forced to do the most nauseous things that can be thought on to please and humor their patrons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who lives longer: the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or the man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes till nin...ety-five? One passes his twenty-four months in eternity. All the years of the beef-eater are lived only in time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore, you will take note here my Drinkers, that the means of holding and maintaining a newly conquered country is not (as was... the mistaken opinion of tyrannical minds--to their misery and dishonor) by pillaging, forcing, crushing with levies, ruining, mistreating and ruling with rods of steel: in brief, eating and devouring their peoples, such as Homer calls the evil king Demovore, which is to say eater of peoples.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of the real poet. But a...fter all Coleridge is nothing more than an intellectual opium-eater--a man of many crude though lovely thoughts--of confused though brilliant imagination, liable to much error--error even of the heart, very sensual in many of his ideas of pleasure--indolent to a degree, and evidently and always thinking without discipline; letting the fine brains which God gave him work themselves irregularly and without end or object--and carry him whither they will. Wordsworth has a grand, consistent, perfectly disciplined, all grasping intellect--for which nothing is too small, nothing too great, arranging everything in due relations, divinely pure in its conventions of pleasure, majestic in the equanimity of its benevolence--intense as white fire with chastened feeling. Coleridge may be the greater poet, but surely it admits of no question which is the greater man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The farmer takes Jill down the well and all the king's horses... and all the king's men can't put that little girl together again crooked man crooked man pumpkin eater childhood stealer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And I said, "This holy concern for the truth--... no one worries about it except liars." And God was bored. He turned on his side like an opium eater and slept.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that ...does harm to my wit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house The gentleman lay graveward with his furies;... Abaddon in the hangnail cracked from Adam, And, from his fork, a dog among the fairies, The atlas-eater with a jaw for news, Bit out the mandrake with to-morrow's scream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shall I still be love's house on the widdershin earth, Woe to the windy masons at my shelter?... Love's house, they answer, and the tower death Lie all unknowing of the grave sin-eater.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »