Then he took his staff in his hand, and chose five smooth stones from the wadi, and put them in his shepherd s bag, in the pouch; ...his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'll wager that it was impossible after we got mixed together to tell an anti from a suffragist by her clothes. There might have b...een a difference, though, in the expression of the faces and the shape of the heads.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while,... So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is it enough That the dish of milk is set out at night,... That we think of him sometimes, Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behind the steering wheel The boy took out his own forehead.... His girlfriend's head was a green bag Of narcissus stems. "OK you win But meet me anyway at Cohen's Drug Store In 22 minutes."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anestheti...c: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportion...s than a vine filled with grapes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »