It appears to me that men are hired to run down men of genius under the mask of translators, but Dante gives too much of Caesar: h...e is not a republican.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run down... by much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to... tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you kee...p dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave their... native beds and run down their neighbors' channels.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And Peter that had great affairs And was a pushing man... Shrieks, "I am King of the Peacocks," And perches on a stone; And then I laugh till tears run down And the heart thumps at my side....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You've strung your breasts with a rattling rope of pearls,... tied a jangling belt around those deadly hips and clinking jewelled anklets on both your feet. So, stupid, if you run off to your lover like this, banging all these drums, then why do you shudder with all this fear and look up, down; in every direction?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've met a lot of murderers in my day, but Dr. Garth, whatever he is, is the first man I've ever met who was polite to me and stil...l made the chills run up and down my back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »