The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, ...the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And now, dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly, flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed;... Unto an evil counselor close heart, and ear, and eye, And take a lesson from this tale of the Spider and the Fly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been t...aught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like a tale of little meaning though the words are strong; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil,... Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil; Till they perish and they suffer--some, 'tis whispered--down in hellLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant assoc...iations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential--there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost.... It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And is it true? And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all,... Seen in a stained-glass window's hue, A Baby in an ox's stall? The Maker of the stars and sea Become a Child on earth for me?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I should be very willing to redress Men's wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes,... Had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale Of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I often think about the opening words of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of ti...mes." I know Dickens wasn't talking about one- to three- year-olds, but his words do capture the extremes of emotion that toddlers and their parents experience every day. Can there be a creature on earth as adorable--and as trying--as a toddler?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighte...d torch ... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order ... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »