I've been in one Derby, and this is my third Belmont. But I've never thought of the fact that I haven't won a Triple Crown race. I...'m not like that. I always look at the sunshine of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And DANTE searched the triple spheres, Moulding nature at his will,... So shaped, so colored, swift or still, And, sculptor-like, his large design Etched on Alp and Apennine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bless my soul, Sir, will you Britons not credit that an American can be a gentleman, & have read the Waverly Novels, tho every dig...it may have been in the tar-bucket?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Their martyred blood and ashes sow O'er all the Italian fields where still doth sway... The triple tyrant; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team... From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic. Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The double nature of the comic hero is symbolized in these two: Falstaff and Socrates. They are of opposite disposition, yet not s...o unlike as we might think. The essential character of the eiron is incarnate in Socrates, who was "ignorant" and who also had the disposition of the "buffoon" or "fool," the features of the comic spirit itself, the coarse, ugly mask of the satyr or clown. The Socratic method is a tactic of winning victory by professing ignorance, by merely asking questions of the "imposters," the so-called "wise" men of Athens.... We must remember that Falstaff the buffoon and imposter used the same sort of interrogation Socrates the ironist used. He asks the same sort of question: What is honor? Socrates asked: What is justice? Socrates, like Falstaff, is both ironist and buffoon; he is the questioner using a philosophic buffoonery to seek the truth.... He has a double or triple character, for he is, as Falstaff was, both victor and victim--a victim, eventually, of the unthinking Athenians who refused to have their creed unsettled. He was finally condemned to drink the hemlock because he asked too many impious questions. And Falstaff is rejected by King Hal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He could pause in his cross-examination, look at a man, projecting his face forward by degrees as he did so, in a manner which wou...ld crush any false witness who was not armed with triple courage at his breast,--and, alas! not unfrequently a witness who was not false.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliance...s, and, during the interwar period, appeasement of Fascism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »