The world,--this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make... me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult. I grasp the hands of those next to me, and take my place in the ring to suffer and to work, taught by an instinct, that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In 1862 the congregation of the church forwarded the church bell to General Beauregard to be melted into cannon, "hoping that its ...gentle tones, that have so often called us to the House of God, may be transmuted into war's resounding rhyme to repel the ruthless invader from the beautiful land God, in his goodness, has given us."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despite ...the fact that the American Revolution was successful--realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime--while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding ...through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell... By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet imbroider'd vale Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad Song mourneth well. Canst thou not tell me of a gently Pair That likest thy Narcissus are? O if thou have Hid them in som flowry Cave, Tell me but where, Sweet Queen of Parly, Daughter of the Sphear, So maist thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heav'n's Harmonies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Valery ... said that prose was walking, poetry dancing. Indeed, the original two terms, prosus and versus meant, respectively, "go...ing straight forth" and "returning," and that distinction does point up the tendency of poetry to incremental repetition, variation, and the treatment of different themes in a single form. Robert Frost said shrewdly that poetry was what got left behind in translation, which suggests a criterion of almost scientific refinement: when in doubt, translate; whatever is left over is poetry, whatever gets through is prose. And yet even to so cagy a definition the great exception is a resounding one: some of the greatest poetry we have is the Authorized Version of the Bible, which is not only a translation but also, as to its appearance in print, identifiable neither with verse nor with prose in English but rather with cadence compounded of both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever sounding ...and resounding in the ears of men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Again we took to the beach for another day (October 13), walking along the shore of the resounding sea, determined to get it into ...us. We wished to associate with the ocean until it lost the pond-like look which it wears to a countryman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though for some time I have not spoken of the roaring of the breakers, and the ceaseless flux and reflux of the waves, yet they di...d not for a moment cease to dash and roar, with such a tumult that, if you had been there, you could scarcely have heard my voice the while; and they are dashing and roaring this very moment,--though it may be with less din and violence,--for there the sea never rests. We were wholly absorbed by this spectacle and tumult, and like Chryses, though in a different mood from him, we walked silent along the shore of the resounding sea ...--though I doubt if Homer's Mediterranean Sea ever sounded so loud as this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »