We then entered another swamp, at a necessarily slow pace, where the walking was worse than ever, not only on account of the water..., but the fallen timber, which often obliterated the indistinct trail entirely. The fallen trees were so numerous, that for long distances the route was through a succession of small yards, where we climbed over fences as high as our heads, down into water often up to our knees, and then over another fence into a second yard, and so on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Substantial pieces of goods [were] very offensive to her Ladyship's sight. They, for their clumsiness, were discarded, and in thei...r room were placed China images and all manner of Chinese figures: some that stood still and some that, by pulling a string, might be put into such insignificant shakings and motions as made the heads of the beholders giddy.... And thus was this noble ancient castle, which in its old form struck the imagination both with dignity and simplicity, filled with such trifling gewgaws that it was dangerous to move, lest some of the clockwork trumpery should be thrown down and put out of joint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How to attain sufficient clarity of thought to meet the terrifying issues now facing us, before it is too late, is ... important. ...Of one thing I feel reasonably sure: we can't stop to discuss whether the table has or hasn't legs when the house is burning down over our heads. Nor do the classics per se seem to furnish the kind of education which fits people to cope with a fast-changing civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Right down the dam gross-bellied frogs were cocked On sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails. Some hopped:... The slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat Poised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I lie and wait for morning, and the birds, The first steps going down the unswept street,... Voices of girls with scarves around their heads.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Aristotle, as a philosopher, is in many ways very different from all his predecessors. He is the first to write like a professor: ...his treatises are systematic, his discussions are divided into heads, he is a professional teacher, not an inspired prophet. His work is critical, careful, pedestrian, without any trace of Bacchic enthusiasm. The Orphic elements in Plato are watered down in Aristotle, and mixed with a strong dose of common sense; where he is Platonic, one feels that his natural temperament has been overpowered by the teaching to which he has been subjected. He is not passionate, or in any profound sense religious. The errors of his predecessors were the glorious errors of youth attempting the impossible; his errors are those of age which cannot free itself of habitual prejudices. He is best in detail and in criticism; he fails in large construction, for lack of fundamental clarity and Titanic fire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think... that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should h...ave them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece--must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »