To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the embarrassment most of us feel in that condition. Th...e word "nude," on the other hand, carries, in educated usage, no uncomfortable overtone. The vague image it projects into the mind is not of a huddled and defenseless body, but of a balanced, prosperous, and confident body: the body re-formed. In fact, the word was forced into our vocabulary by critics of the early eighteenth century to persuade artless islanders that, in countries where painting and sculpture were practiced and valued as they should be, the naked human body was the central subject of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A little quaker, the whole body of him trembling, His absurd whiskers sticking out like a cartoon-mouse,... His feet like small leaves, Little lizard-feet, Whitish and spread wide when he tried to struggle away,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The city mouse eats bread and cheese;-- The garden mouse eats what he can;... We will not grudge him seeds and stocks, Poor little timid furry man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fireside for the cricket, The wheatstack for the mouse,... When trembling night-winds whistle And moan all round the house;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A bather whose clothing was strewed By winds that left her quite nude... Saw a man come along And, unless I am wrong, You expected this line to be rude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An epicure dining at Cree Found a rather large mouse in his stew.... Said the waiter, "Don't shout, Or wave it about, Or the rest will be wanting one too."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Said the Duchess of Alba to Ga, "Paint a picture to hang in my foyer!"... So he painted her twice: In the nude, to look nice, And then in her clothes, to annoy her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »