Hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and then, with weary p...atience, cleansed ourselves from its defilements, and learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul; hardly is this done, when--Thar she blows!--the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to fight some other world, and go through young life's old routine again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Moreover, the slogan "highbrows and lowbrows, unite!", which he had spouted already, is all wrong since true highbrows are highbro...ws because they do not unite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight;... Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the folklore of the wo...rld of the radio--remarks made without using either the tongue or the brain, spouted much like the spoutings of small whales--we should recognize him as below the level of nature but not as below the level of the imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »