In clear weather the laziest may look across the Bay as far as Plymouth at a glance, or over the Atlantic as far as human vision r...eaches, merely raising his eyelids; or if he is too lazy to look after all, he can hardly help hearing the ceaseless dash and roar of the breakers. The restless ocean may at any moment cast up a whale or a wrecked vessel at your feet. All the reporters in the world, the most rapid stenographers, could not report the news it brings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by common consent)... Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'A thing is called by a certain name because it instantiates a certain universal' is obviously circular when particularized, but i...t looks imposing when left in this general form. And it looks imposing in this general form largely because of the inveterate philosophical habit of treating the shadows cast by words and sentences as if they were separately identifiable. Universals, like facts and propositions, are such shadows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily; If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news... By playing it to me with so sour a face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In poison there is physic, and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick,... Being sick, have in some measure made me well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For imagine my shame when they asked what I meant And I had to confess that I'd been, gone and went... And forgotten the news I was bringing to Ghent,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »