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 »
Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools a...re in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, busy weaver! unseen weaver!--pause--one word!--whither flows the fabric? what palace may it deck? wherefore all these ceaseles...s toilings? Speak weaver!--stay thy hand!--but one single word with thee! Nay--the shuttle flies--the figures float forth from the loom; the freshet-rushing carpet forever slides away. The weaver-god, he weaves; and by that humming, we, too, who look on the loom are deafened; and only when we escape it shall we hear the thousand voices that speak through it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plainsong cuckoo grey,... Whose note full many a man doth mark And dares not answer nay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was in fact an old battle and hunting ground through which we had been floating, the ancient dwelling-place of a race of hunter...s and warriors.... Pawtucket and Wamesit, where the Indians, where the Indians resorted in the fishing season, are now Lowell, the city of spindles and Manchester of America, which sends its cotton cloth round the globe. Even we youthful voyagers had spent a part of our lives in the village of Chelmsford, when the present city, whose bells we heard, was its obscure north district only, and the giant weaver was not yet fairly born. So old are we; so young is it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be a pleasant pastime to find suitable names for the hundred varieties which go to a single heap at the cider-mill. Would... it not tax a man's invention,--no one to be named after a man, and all in the lingua vernacula? Who shall stand godfather at the christening of the wild apples? It would exhaust the Latin and Greek languages, if they were used, and make the lingua vernacula flag. We should have to call in the sunrise and the sunset, the rainbow and the autumn woods and the wild-flowers, and the woodpecker and the purple finch and the squirrel and the jay and the butterfly, the November traveler and the truant boy, to our aid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »