...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declar...ing that every man should be master in his own house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The old guard may grumble and occasionally sue, but in a society where Portnoy's Complaint is a record-breaking best- seller sexua...l permissiveness is no longer an issue. The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve-ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating b...ulwark of the island.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The royal refugee our breed restores With foreign courtiers and with foreign whores,... And carefully repeopled us again, Throughout his lazy, long, lascivious reign.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first place he went into was the Royal Exchange .... where men of all ages and all nations were assembled, with no other view ...than to barter for interest. The countenances of most of the people showed they were filled with anxiety; some indeed appeared pleased, but yet it was with a mixture of fear.... [David] resolved to stay no longer in a place where riches were esteemed goodness, and deceit, low cunning, and giving up all things to the love of gain were thought wisdom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now owing, I'm much disposed to fear, To his terrible taste for tippling,... That highly respectable gondolier Could never declare with a mind sincere Which of the two was his offspring dear And which the Royal stripling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
a highly respectable gondolier, Who promised the Royal babe to rear... And teach him the trade of a timoneer With his own beloved brattling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard, sent on through the wilderness of untried things, to break a new path in the ...New World that is ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the cour...t and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »