We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan, Grayed in, and gray. "Dream" makes a giddy sound, not strong... Like "rent," "feeding a wife," "satisfying a man."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Substantial pieces of goods [were] very offensive to her Ladyship's sight. They, for their clumsiness, were discarded, and in thei...r room were placed China images and all manner of Chinese figures: some that stood still and some that, by pulling a string, might be put into such insignificant shakings and motions as made the heads of the beholders giddy.... And thus was this noble ancient castle, which in its old form struck the imagination both with dignity and simplicity, filled with such trifling gewgaws that it was dangerous to move, lest some of the clockwork trumpery should be thrown down and put out of joint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Am I in love? ... If in love, where's the sweetheart? Is it the noble-hearted F___ or the giddy, young, black-eyed E___ who fills ...my thoughts? Do feeling and judgment go together? I feel the strong longing, but not the fixed attachment which belongs to the true love. The settled object is wanting. It is useless to attempt to cast myself free from the cords which a too warm imagination throws about me. The only cure is marriage. If that is not the specific I may as well despair of ever making even a respectable figure in life; ... I am almost wholly worthless.... With me too, believing as I do, or have, that it was a part of my patrimony to be gifted with more than the ordinary allotment of what is called "common sense." I must be in the chrysalis state, neither a boy nor a man; not in love and yet not whole of heart. Well I hope I shall be safely delivered soon, for if I am not, woe to the future!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of f...ashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw u...pon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and aff...ronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,... Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Heaven a spirit doth dwell "Whose heart-strings are a lute;"... None sing so wildly well As the angel Israfel, And the giddy stars (so legends tell) Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell Of his voice, all mute.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense!... See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion blushingveils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread Empire, Chaos, is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »