If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning..., like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still s...tronger reasons for bachelors to go out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm?--the unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all th...e varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with... palms and banyans--which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial... vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »