The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upon... their dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, pa...rtly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon. "I'll tell you what, sir," he said; "the talent of this child ...is not to be imagined. She must be seen, sir--seen--to be ever so faintly appreciated."... The infant phenomenon, though of short stature, had a comparatively aged countenance, and had moreover been precisely the same age--not perhaps to the full extent of the memory of the oldest inhabitant, but certainly for five good years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but ta...x-gatherer and creditor came there as elsewhere, and the poverty that yet faintly struggled was hardly less squalid and manifest than that which had long ago submitted and given up the game.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears; Yet slower yet, oh faintly gentle springs:... List to the heavy part the music bears, "Woe weeps out her division when she sings." Droop herbs and flowers; Fall grief in showers; "Our beauties are not ours": Oh, I could still, Like melting snow upon some craggy hill, Drop, drop, drop, drop, Since nature's pride is, now, a withered daffodil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the ...treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. I...t was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The window is wide On a crawling arch of stars, and the night... Reacts faintly to the mathematic Passion of a cello suite Plotting the quiet of my attic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He would not take that direction, to the darkness, to follow her. He walked towards the faintly humming, glowing town, quickly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »