He had been a lad of whom something was expected. Beyond this all had been chaos. That he would be successful in an original way, ...or that he would go to the dogs in an original way, seemed equally probable. The only absolute certainty about him was that he would not stand still in the circumstances amid which he was born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--Here, the flag snaps in the glare and silence Of the unbroken ice. I stand here,... The dogs bark, my beard is black, and I stare At the North Pole. . . And now what? Why, go back.
even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot... Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and ...turn again and rend you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
According to fiction, the hillman is a seven-foot combination of malnutrition and hookworm, asleep on his front porch with the dog...s. His great bare feet, dangling off the porch, flap from time to time when the flies get too pesky, but nothing awakens him except a hound's salute to a stranger. Then he shoots up his astounding neck to its full length, ogles the visitor, and on his hunting horn blows a series of long and short blasts that means, "Hide yore stills and oil yore guns; they air a stranger h'yar."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyra...nnizing cruelly or beneficently over others; they go the way their nature guides them. Add to this the guidance of interest, and you will have the key to most social riddles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats,... And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hark, all you ladies that do sleep! The fairy queen... Bids you awake, and pity them that weep. You may do in the dark What the day doth forbid. Fear not the dogs that bark; Night will have all hid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He turns agen and drives the noisy crowd And beats the dogs in noises loud.... He drives away and beats them every one, And then they loose them all and set them on. He falls as dead and kicked by boys and men, Then starts and grins and drives the crowd agen; Till kicked and torn and beaten out he lies And leaves his hold and cackles, groans, and dies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »