One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-...fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?... How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu' o' care? Thou'lt break my heart, thou warbling bird, That wantons thro' the flowering thorn: Thou minds me o' departed joys, Departed never to return.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantrie...s, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do you do in the Grand Hotel? Eat, sleep, loaf around, flirt a little, dance a little. A hundred doors leading to one hall. N...o one knows anything about the person next to them. And when you leave, someone occupies your room, lies in your bed. That's the end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm telling the truth. I'm standing at death's door... and even today my sight falls on that thicket on the Tpt's pure banks, just as before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all things in life, Mrs. Lee held this kind of court-service in contempt, for she was something more than republican--a little ...communistic at heart, and her only serious complaint of the President and his wife was that they undertook to have a court and to ape monarchy. She had no notion of admitting social superiority in any one, President or Prince, and to be suddenly converted into a lady-in-waiting to a small German Grand-Duchess, was a terrible blow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, f...or the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »