Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain;... Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"To dine!" she shrieked in dragon-wrath. "To swallow wines all foam and froth!... To simper at a table-cloth!" Say, can thy noble spirit stoop To join the gormandising troop Who find solace in the soup?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The vanishing volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every mom...ent converted into the Adamantine Record of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;... If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood,... Who once a day with his embossed froth The turbulent surge shall cover; thither come, And let my grave-stone be your oracle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It were vain for me to endeavor to interpret the Silence. She cannot be done into English. For six thousand years men have transla...ted her with what fidelity belonged to each, and still she is little better than a sealed book. A man may run on confidently for a time, thinking he has her under his thumb, and shall one day exhaust her, but he too must at last be silent, and men remark only how brave a beginning he made; for when he at length dives into her, so vast is the disproportion of the told to the untold that the former will seem but the bubble on the surface where he disappeared. Nevertheless, we will go on, like those Chinese cliff swallows, feathering our nests with the froth which may one day be bread of life to such as dwell by the seashore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His works are not to be studied, but read with a swift satisfaction. Their flavor and gust is like what poets tell of the froth of... wine, which can only be tasted once and hastily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »