Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not they back to the compass; accept... the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood.... ...What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The soldier here, as everywhere in Canada, appeared to be put forward, and by his best foot. They were in the proportion of the so...ldiers to the laborers in an African ant-hill.... On every prominent ledge you could see England's hands holding the Canadas, and I judged from the redness of her knuckles that she would soon have to let go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »