The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings or ...die. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am greatly pleased with your account of Fanny; I found her in the summer just as you describe, almost another sister, M& ... />could not have supposed that a niece would ever have been so much to me. She is quite after one's own heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O sinewy silver biplane, nudging the wind's withers! There, from Kill Devils Hill at Kitty Hawk... Two brothers in their twinship left the dune; Warping the gale, the Wright wind wrestlers veered Capeward, then blading the wind's flank, banked and spun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God of the machine, Peregrine machine,... Some still think is Satan, Unto you the thanks For this token flight, Thanks to you and thanks To the brothers Wright....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was born a mechanic, and made a barrel before I was ten years old. The cooper told my father, "Fanny made that barrel, and has d...one it quicker and better than any boy I have had after six months' training." My father looked at it and said, "What a pity that you were not born a boy so that you could be good for something. Run into the house, child, and go to knitting."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fanny was not there! How she would have enjoyed the scene.... I could not but think of her, and in spite of my efforts to prevent,... the unbidden tear would flow. Alas! I cannot feel the satisfaction some appear to do in the reflection that her eyes beheld the scene from the other world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
here in hell We're drinking tea from a Grecian Urn long after... Your Paphian Fanny let tubercles quell Ethereal passion: I know it by your laughter!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only one comes back with me tomorrow, probably Miss Eliza, & I rather dread it. We shall not have two Ideas in common. She is... young, pretty, chattering, & thinking chiefly (I presume) of Dress, Company, & Admiration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »