We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler--displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag.... Or we can see in the juggler a real person who strives to overcome the obstacles that nature and society put in her path and who does so with vigor and determination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Below me trees unnumbered rise, Beautiful in various dyes:... The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the sable yew, The slender fir that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The kind of Unitarian Who having by elimination got... From many gods to Three, and Three to One, Thinks why not taper off to none at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In his sleeves, which were long, He had twenty-four packs,--... Which was coming it strong, Yet I state but the facts; And we found on his nails, which were taper, What is frequent in tapers,--that's wax.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How ill this taper burns! Ha! Who comes here? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes... That shapes this monstrous apparition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The flame o' th' taper Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids,... To see th' enclosed lights, now canopied Under these windows, white and azure laced With blue of heaven's own tinct.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild... thinking in Hamlet and the Iliad, in all the scriptures and mythologies, not learned in the schools, that delights us. As the wild duck is more swift and beautiful than the tame, so is the wild--mallard--thought, which 'mid falling dews wings its way above the fens. A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,--and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »