St. Joseph in 1859 had the bustling appearance of a great fair, with excited travelers preparing to make the plains journey in pra...irie schooners, "rickety old farm wagons," and even small two-wheeled push carts. many bore such mottoes as--"Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady," "I Dare," "For Pike's Peak Ho." Before long many were to return, disappointed in their search for gold, hungry, ragged, and dispirited, their brave wagon boasts changed to "Prodigal Son," "Pike's Hell," "A Fool Is Born."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The anarchy, assassination, and sacrilege by which the Kingdom of France has been disgraced, desolated, and polluted for some year...s past cannot but have excited the strongest emotions of horror in every virtuous Briton. But within these days our hearts have been pierced by the recital of proceedings in that country more brutal than any recorded in the annals of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate... now & then, but every turn of the card & cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive--besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life o...f passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thin...g never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They were fanatical men and women, young and old, all deeply touched by the great rousing call of the revolution, gladly willing t...o fight for the sake of humanity and to sacrifice themselves. There were strangely excited and intense figures among them, believers: believers in this world and utopians who dreamed of eternal peace. And though they were weak and they were few, they towered miles above the miserable figures of the little philistine Ebert and the wooden Noske with his mercenaries, who would soon raise their cudgels and smash them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an ...Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[W]hat I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a mos...t sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, wok...e up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »