The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which ...so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Ye that put your trust and confidence In worldly joy and frail prosperity,... That so live here as ye should never hence, Remember death and look here upon me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Was I not born of old worthy lineage? Was not my mother queen, my father king?... Was I not a king's fere in marriage? Had I not plenty of every pleasant thing?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religio...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know St. Thomas Aquinas calls eternity, nunc stans, and ever-abiding now; which is easy enough to say, but though I fain would, ...yet I could never conceive it: they that can are more happy than I.... I understand as little how it can be true his Lordship says, that God is not just, but justice itself; not wise, but wisdom itself; not eternal, but eternity itself;... These phrases I find not in the Scripture; I wonder therefore what was the design of the Schoolmen to bring them up, unless they thought a man could not be a true Christian unless his understanding be first strangled with such hard sayings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ask me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose;... For in your beauty's orient deep These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.
Ask me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day; For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If in the world there be more woe Than I have in my heart,... Whereso it is, it doth come fro, And in my breast there doth it grow,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great novels of sex of the nineteenth century were those of Thomas Hardy. By comparison, Lawrence's books are more subtle and ...more revealing. Hardy was interested in the results of the sex impulses as they display themselves in normal life. Sex wrecks Jude; sex ennobles and ruins Tess. Lawrence is not much interested in results. When sex is triumphant in Alvina, the lost girl, the story ends. Her story is just beginning, but the only aspect that interested Lawrence has concluded. Sex in itself and for itself is his fascination, and if this makes him narrow it also makes him shrewd.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »