That's right, son. That's why I keep my hat on, so my horns don't show. Why I've got more wives than Solomon hisself. At least tha...t's what folks around here say. And if they don't say it, they, they think it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas tree ...will bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-d...atum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he 'perceives.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Spirit of her I love, Whispering to me,... Stories of sweet visions, as I rove, Here stop, and crop with me Sweet flowers that in the still hour grew,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, and ...we are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hm, the beacon of the press. In the hell to which all journalists must descend when they die, Mr. Wiggam, we shall sit at red hot ...desks with quills of fire in our hand and spend eternity on eternity writing about the salubrious weather of that region. Let us serve our apprenticeship here thoroughly and intelligently.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But this rough magic I here abjure, and when I have required... Some heavenly music--which even now I do-- To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Norther...n Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »