I also heard the whooping of the ice in the pond, my great bed-fellow in that part of Concord, as if it were restless in its bed a...nd would fain turn over, were troubled with flatulency and bad dreams; or I was waked by the cracking of the ground by the frost, as if some one had driven a team against my door, and in the morning would find a crack in the earth a quarter of a mile long and a third of an inch wide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lord, crack their teeth! Lord, crush these lions' jaws! So let them sink as water in the sand;... When deadly bow their aiming fury draws, Shiver the shaft ere past the shooter's hand. So make them melt as the dishoused snailLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us in...capable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying princi...ple of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the haunted house no quarter is given: in that respect It's very much business as usual. The reductive principle... Is no longer there, or isn't enforced as much as before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is the rich quarter, with its houses of pink and white, and its crumbling, leafy terraces.... There is the poorer quarter, its homes a deep blue. There is the market, where men are selling hats and swatting fliesLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed,... And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »