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 »
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 »
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 »
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the... facts printed in black ink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What an antithetical mind!--tenderness, roughness--delicacy, coarseness--sentiment, sensuality--soaring and grovelling, dirt and d...eity--all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The vulgarest tool that Tyranny could want, With just enough of talent, and no more,... To lengthen fetters by another fixed, And offer poison long already mixed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes: A thing, as the Bellman remarked,... That frequently happens in tropical climes When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a certain jargon, which, in French, I should call un Persiflage d'Affaires, that a foreign Minister ought to be perfectly... master of, and may be used very advantageously at great entertainments, in mixed companies, and in all occasions where he must speak, and should say nothing. Well turned and well spoken, it seems to mean something, though in truth it means nothing. It is a kind of political badinage, which prevents or removes a thousand difficulties, to which a foreign Minister is exposed in mixed conversations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not ofte...n bear transplanting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »