It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this fre...e country a dianoetic academy, or seminary for free-thinkers, provided with retired chambers, and galleries, and shady walks and groves, where, after seven years spent in silence and meditation, a man might commence a genuine free-thinker, and from that time forward, have license to think what he pleased, and a badge to distinguish him from counterfeits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken;... The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,... Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp. Thou didst create clay, but I made the cup.... Thou didst create the deserts, mountains and forests, I produced the orchards, gardens and groves. It is I who made the glass out of stone, And it is I who turn a poison into an antidote.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways And block the ends of streets with giant loaves,... Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shine Perpetually these sharply-pictured groves Of how life should be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most ef...fulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The women, who had congregated in the groves, set up the most violent clamors, as they invariably do here as elsewhere on every oc...casion of excitement and alarm, with a view of tranquilizing their own minds and disturbing other people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high Through the dear might of him that walk'd the waves,... Where other groves and other streams along With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the bless'd kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »