They say princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a ...prince as soon as his groom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it dow...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the bes...t of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir Richard cried in his English pride, 'We have fought such a fight for a day and a night... As may never be fought again! We have won great glory, my men! And a day less or more At sea or ashore, We die--does it matter when?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse:... Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother; Death ere thou has slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, some as soon would throw it all As throw a part away.... And some will say all sorts of things, But some mean what they say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here come the line-gang pioneering by. They throw a forest down less cut than broken.... They plant dead trees for living, and the dead They string together with a living thread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,... as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »