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 »
For in the word death There is nothing to grasp; nothing to catch or claim;... Nothing to adapt the skill of the heart to, skill In surviving, for death it cannot survive, Only resign the irrecoverable keys. The wave falters and drowns. The coulter of joy Breaks. The harrow of death Depends. And there are thrown up waves.LESSATTRIBUTION 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 »
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the de...ssert, a bit like meringue.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 »
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 »
The things that were coming to be talked about Have come and gone and are still remembered... As being recent. There is a grain of curiosity At the base of some new thing, that unrolls Its question mark like a new wave on the shore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... like a Wave on a beach, that thinks it's had this... Tremendous idea, coming to crash on the beach Like that, and it's true, it has, yet Others have gone before, and still others will Follow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »