I have got enough of the old masters! Brown says he has "shook" them, and I think I will shake them, too. You wander through a mil...e of picture galleries and stare stupidly at ghastly old nightmares done in lampblack and lightning, and listen to the ecstatic encomiums of the guides, and try to get up some enthusiasm, but it won't come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testi...mony against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bring me my Bow of burning gold: Bring me my Arrows of desire:... Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green & pleasant Land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advances ...to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own fiel...d, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and ... to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I eve...r be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? I hope so, oh, I hope so very much, for I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the gods think to speak outright to man, they will honorably speak outright; not shake their heads, and give an old wives' dark...ling hint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is... a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people wh...en we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off. All our passengers are paying strict attention to this thing, with the end in view which I have mentioned. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »