"When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?" O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the he...avenly host crying "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"What," it will be questioned, "When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?" O no, no, I see a...n innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of the physicality of the most famous blonde in the world is a wholesome eroticism blurred a little round the edges by... the fact she is not quite sure what eroticism is. This gives her her tentative luminosity and what makes her, somehow, always more like her own image in the mirror than she is like herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring th...e majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pushkin's composition is first of all and above all a phenomenon of style, and it is from this flowered rim that I have surveyed i...ts seep of Arcadian country, the serpentine gleam of its imported brooks, the miniature blizzards imprisoned in round crystal, and the many-hued levels of literary parody blending in the melting distance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The word of the moment is "classless," whether applied to Cockney Society photographers or sprigs of the aristocracy running littl...e bistros round the corner. Mick Jagger, alternately slurring yob and lisping lordling, is classlessness apotheosised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the land of turkeys in turkey weather At the base of the statue, we go round and round.... What a beautiful history, beautiful surprise! Monsieur is on horseback. The horse is covered with mice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be but a wretched compliment of condolence to offer to a queen of China, or Japan, or India, Scythia, or Gothia, who had ...just lost her infant son to say: "Be comforted, madam; his highness the prince royal is now in the clutches of five hundred devils, who turn him round and round in a great furnace to all eternity, while his body rests embalmed and in peace within the precincts of your palace." The astonished and terrified queen inquires why these devils should eternally roast her dear son, the prince royal. She is answered that the reason of it is that his great-grandfather formerly ate of the fruit of knowledge in a garden. Form an idea, if possible, of the looks and thoughts of the king, the queen, the whole council, and all the beautiful ladies of the court.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, on...ly seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know of the sleepy country, where swans fly round Coupled with golden chains, and sing as they fly.... A king and a queen are wandering there, and the sound Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so blind With wisdom, they wander till all the years have gone by....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »