But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpet...uity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now I am powerless to draw back... for the sea is cyclamen-purple, cyclamen-red, colour of the last grapes, colour of the purple of the flowers, cyclamen-coloured and dark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf.... For a month or two ...it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then ... be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The others died, the luck of it blurting through them. I could not, I was a silly broken umbrella... and oblivion would not kiss me. For three days it was thus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's past and what's to come is strewed with husks And formless ruin of oblivion;... But in this extant moment, faith and truth, Strained purely from all hollow bias-drawing, Bids thee, with most divine integrity, From heart of very heart, great Hector, welcome!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, When time is old and hath forgot itself,... When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, And blind oblivion swallowed cities up, And mighty states characterless are grated To dusty nothing, yet let memory From false to false among false maids in love Upbraid my falsehood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.... O that that earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall t'expel the winter's flaw!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »