Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting s...oul for all its pride.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The body Of... Benjamin Franklin Printer (Like the cover of an old book Its contents torn out And stripped of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost For it will (as he believed) appear once more In a new and more elegant edition Revised and corrected by The Author.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,... Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience--it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the mo...rning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have not read of any Arcadian life which surpasses the actual luxury and serenity of these New England dwellings. For the outwar...d gilding, at least, the age is golden enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the morning,... I ran over to the Church of La Bonne Ste. Anne, whose matin bell we had heard, it being Sunday morning. Our boo...k said that this church had "long been an object of interest, from the miraculous cures said to have been wrought on visitors to the shrine." There was a profusion of gilding, and I counted more than twenty-five crutches suspended on the walls, some for grown persons, some for children, which it was to be inferred so many sick had been able to dispense with; but they looked as if they had been made to order by the carpenter who made the church.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no mor...e than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In such a day, in September or October, Walden is a perfect forest mirror, set round with stones as precious to my eye as if fewer... or rarer. Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the earth. Sky water. It needs no fence. Nations come and go without defiling it. It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;Ma mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush,--this the light-dust cloth,--which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »