The Tragi-Comedy, which is the Product of the English Theatre, is one of the most monstrous Inventions that ever entered into a Po...et's Thoughts. An Author might as well think of weaving the Adventures of Aeneas and Hudibras into one Poem, as of writing such a motly [sic] Piece of Mirth and Sorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you hear the wind? It's not dying, It's singing, weaving a song about the president saluting the trust,... The past in each of us....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t...o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning... her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the small circle of pain within the skull You still shall tramp and tread one endless round... Of thought, to justify your action to yourselves, Weaving a fiction which unravels as you weave, Pacing forever in the hell of make-believe Which never is belief: this is your fate on earth And we must think no further of you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some d...egree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter- writing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving:... O what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hand's weaving;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus the orb he roamed With narrow search, and with inspection deep... Considered every creature, which of all Most opportune might serve his wiles, and found The serpent subtlest beast of all the field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So he with difficulty and labour hard Moved on, with difficulty and labour he;... But he once passed, soon after when man fell, Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain Following his track, such was the will of Heaven, Paved after him a broad and beaten way Over the dark abyss, whose boiling gulf Tamely endured a bridge of wondrous length From hell continued reaching th' utmost orb Of this frail world;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge... His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heav'ns Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model heav'n And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances, how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »