Wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinquepace; the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch ji...g, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the cinquepace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The river's tent is broken; the last fingers of leaf Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind... Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed. Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song. The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers, Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends Or other testimony of summer nights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these ext...remes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particula...rs, know, that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She saw a dust bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister calxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecst...atic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of th...e ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into ob...livion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are women in middle life, whose days are crowded with practical duties, physical strain, and moral responsibility ... they f...ail to see that some use of the mind, in solid reading or in study, would refresh them by its contrast with carking cares, and would prepare interest and pleasure for their later years. Such women often sink into depression, as their cares fall away from them, and many even become insane. They are mentally starved to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the swimmer depends on water, so the writer depends on language. To swim well, we must let ourselves be enveloped by the water,... sink into it, become a part of it. To write well, we must similarly let ourselves be enveloped by the language, sink into it, become a part of it. In short, as swimmers, instead of fight ing the water to avoid drowning, we must learn to use our body-in-the-water so it will float effortlessly: then, we can start to swim. Similarly, as writers, instead of fighting the language to make it express our ideas, we must learn to use our mind-in-the-language so that our ideas-in-words will float effortlessly; then, we can start to write.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »