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An account of it would have been thought fabulous, were not the Wall itself extant.
There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.
There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.
So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard thesound of thetrumpet, and the peopleshouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. 90
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
In the same hourcame forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied.
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass.
Oh, to have a little house! To own the hearth and stool and all! The heaped-up sods upon the fire, The pile of turf against the wall! To have a clock with weights and chains And pendulum swinging up and down, A dresser filled with shining delph, Speckled and white and blue and brown!
Such were the numbers which could call The stones into theTheban wall. Such miracles are ceased, and now we see No towns or houses raised by poetry.
Soit donc que vous composiez, soit donc que vous jouiez, ne pensez non plus au spectateur que s'il n'existait pas. Imaginez sur le bord du the a" tre, un grand mur qui vous se pare du parterre; jouez comme si la toile ne se levait pas. Whether you compose or act, think no more of the spectator than if he did not exist. Imagine at the edge of the stage a large wall which separates you from the orchestra; act as if the curtain never rose.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence.
Never tell me that not one star of all That slip from heaven at night and softly fall Has been picked up with stones to build a wall.
I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.
Wehavenever had toput awall up tokeep our peoplein, to prevent them from leaving us.
If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking inthestreet, Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
An'see the deid come loupin'owre The auld grey wa's.
Like men we'll face the murderous cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to goif there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And hewhistled, andshouted, and called thembyname; 'Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!'
All through that summer at ease we lay, And daily from the turret wall We watched the mowers in the hay And the enemy half a mile away. They seemed no threat to us at all.
He that but once too nearly hears The music of forfended spheres Is thenceforth lonely, and for all His days as one who treads the Wall Of China, and, on this hand, sees Cities and their civilities And, on the other, lions. 643
Commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement.Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions!
As interesting as a wall can be. Shaw
Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned some accountants and solicitors with them.
Bankers'genes were Wall St. genes, especially in the big cities. If the banks were conservative just now [1955], it was because bankers still awoke in the middle of the night, trembling and sweaty with thoughts of the Crash. But intimeanewgenerationwouldtake over: ambitious, overcompetitive young men to whom1929 would be merelya date on a page; such menwould sever theroots of memory as if with an ax, not realizing that those tendrils were also the rudder cables.
America no longer lives behind its great wall. Economically,Genghis Khan has arrived.
I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, Ayear whose days are long.
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