"Dirty fellow!" exclaimed the Captain, seizing both her wrists, "hark you, Mrs. Frog, you'd best hold your tongue; for I must make... bold to tell you, if you don't, that I shall make no ceremony of tripping you out of the window, and there you may lie in the mud till some of your Monseers come to help you out of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that... Before the agony; the spirit grows, Forgets, and cries; A little comes, is tasted and found good....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle,... Out of the Ninth-month midnight, Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wandered alone, bareheaded, barefootLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire, take care and watch yourselves closely, so that you do ...not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure -the likeness of male or female...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the... world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority i...n exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing... Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was young ... there never was any question about right and wrong. We knew our catechism, and that was enough; we learned ou...r creed and our duty. Every respectable Church person had the same opinions. But, now if you speak out of the Prayer-book itself, you are liable to be contradicted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »