In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given ...trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret's nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was a sweet view--sweet to the eye and the mind. British verdure, British culture, British comfort, seen under a sun bright, wi...thout being oppressive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the ...adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there. The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they remain the same paintings, ever faithful, ever convincing. To a marvelous extent they carry their own light within. For their truth is not that of a perfect replica, it is the truth of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin, She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin.... An abstemious man would reel at her look, As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a fair face will wither, a full eye will wax holl...ow, but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon--or rather the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow, Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;... And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near, A pretty Babe all burning bright did in the air appear;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »