Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden that its fragrance may be wafted abroad. Let my beloved come to h...is garden, and eat its choicest fruits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all things in life, Mrs. Lee held this kind of court-service in contempt, for she was something more than republican--a little ...communistic at heart, and her only serious complaint of the President and his wife was that they undertook to have a court and to ape monarchy. She had no notion of admitting social superiority in any one, President or Prince, and to be suddenly converted into a lady-in-waiting to a small German Grand-Duchess, was a terrible blow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blow ...up in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but... whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!... Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the fac...e. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said "Box about: 'twill come to my father anon."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is that the wind dying? O no; It's only two devils, that blow... Through a murderer's bones, to and fro, In the ghosts' moonshine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »