The reader uses his eyes as well as or instead of his ears and is in every way encouraged to take a more abstract view of the lang...uage he sees. The written or printed sentence lends itself to structural analysis as the spoken does not because the reader's eye can play back and forth over the words, giving him time to divide the sentence into visually appreciated parts and to reflect on the grammatical function.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"I can make you happy," said he to the back of her head, across the bush. "You shall have a piano in a year or two--farmers' wives... are getting to have pianos now--and I'll practice up the flute right well to play with you in the evenings." "Yes; I should like that." "And have one of those little ten-pound gigs for market--and nice flowers, and birds--cocks and hens I mean, because they can be useful," continued Gabriel, feeling balanced between poetry and practicality. "I should like it very much." "And a frame for cucumbers--like a gentleman and lady." "Yes." "And when the wedding was over, we'd have it put in the newspaper lists of marriages." "Dearly I should like that!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"If my head hurt a hair's foot Pack back the downed bone. If the unpricked ball of my breath... Bump on a spout let the bubbles jump out...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding o...f that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you know, I've never really grown up? It's a hard thing for me to play this game. In politics, one must meet people, and that's... not easy for me.... When I was a little fellow, as long ago as I can remember, I would go into a panic if I heard stranger voices in the house. I felt I just couldn't meet the people and shake hands with them. Most of the visitors would sit with Mother and Father in the kitchen and the hardest thing in the world was to go through the door and give them a greeting.... I'm all right with old friends, but every time I meet a stranger, I've got to go through the old kitchen door, back home, and it's not easy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even Lust the Master of a hardned Face, Blushes if thou beest in the place,... To darkness' Curtains he retires, In Sympathizing Night he rowls his smoaky Fires.
When, Goddess, thou liftst up thy wakened Head, Out of the Mornings purple bed, Thy Quire of Birds about thee play, And all the joyful world salutes the rising day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The guided missiles, The black-and-white angels follow each quirk and jink of... The evasive sheep, play grandmother's-steps behind them, Freeze to the ground, or leap to head off a stragglerLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The back somersault, the kip-up-- And at last, the stand on his hands,... Perfect, with his feet together, His head down, evenly breathing,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is th...e play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »