Known commonly as the jackass, this long-eared little creature is respected throughout the southwest--roundly cursed yet respected...--and here he is usually referred to by his Spanish name, burro. Because of his extraordinary bray, he is sometimes ironically called the "Arizona Nightingale."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade,... Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring: Every thing did banish moan, Save the Nightingale alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for the... eighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And I was yong and ful of ragerye, Stibourne and strong and joly as a pie:... How coude I daunce to an harpe smale, And singe, ywis, as any nightingale, Whan I hadde dronke a draughte of sweete win.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Olaf (being to all intents a corpse and wanting any rag... Upon what god unto him gave) responds, without getting annoyed "I will not kiss your f.ing flag"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscled ...suits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now the nightingale, the pretty nightingale, The sweetest singer in all the forest's choir,... Entreats thee, sweet Peggy, to hear thy true Love's tale: Lo! yonder she sitteth, her breast against a briar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »