The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried ...down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when i...t is proposed to make some concession to women they loom up like an unscalable wall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You hold me up to the light in a way I should never have expected, or suspected, perhaps... Because you always tell me I am you, And right. The great spruces loom. I am yours to die with, to desire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How easily and cleverly do I write just now! I am really pleased with myself; words come skipping to me like lambs upon Moffat Hil...l; and I turn my periods smoothly and imperceptibly like a skilful wheelwright turning tops in a turning-loom. There's fancy! There's simile!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, littl...e is quite impossible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true pren...tices again, and let them be denizens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these a...re the lords of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of our factories with which we have ...lined all the watercourses in the States. A man hardly knows how much he is a machine, until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press, and locomotive, in his own image.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god bro...ught a thread to the skyey web.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »