From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel, Volume 2Doubleday & McClure, 1899 |
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Page 233 - I BUILT my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, " O Soul, make merry and carouse, Dear soul, for all is well.
Page 21 - Ay, because the sea's the street there ; and 'tis arched by ... what you call . . . Shylock's bridge with houses on it, where they kept the carnival ! I was never out of England — it's as if I saw it all ! Did young people take their pleasure when the sea was warm in May?
Page 139 - I HAVE struck a city — a real city — and they call it Chicago. The other places do not count. San Francisco was a pleasure-resort as well as a city, and Salt Lake was a phenomenon. This place is the first American city I have encountered. It holds rather more than a million people with bodies, and stands on the same sort of soil as Calcutta. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
Page 15 - not more than eight times, we adjourned. America is a very great country, but it is not yet Heaven with electric lights and plush fittings, as the speakers professed to believe. My listening mind went back to the politicians in the...
Page 353 - I gave her one, they gave him two, You gave us three or more; They all returned from him to you. Though they were mine before. If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He trusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were. My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit) An obstacle that came between Him, and ourselves, and it. Don't let him know she liked them best. For this must ever be A secret, kept from all the rest. Between yourself and me.
Page 155 - But the moving-on is nearly finished and the grabbing must stop, and then the Federal Government will have to establish a Woods and Forests Department the like of which was never seen in the world before. And all the people who have been accustomed to hack, mangle, and burn timber as they please will object, with shots and protestations, to this infringement of their rights.
Page 38 - ... drop in the tail of a riffle. I was getting my rod together when I heard the joyous shriek of the reel and the yells of California, and three feet of living silver leaped into the air far across the water. The forces were engaged. The salmon tore upstream, the tense line cutting the water like a tide-rip behind him, and the light bamboo bowed to breaking. What happened after I cannot tell.
Page 121 - ... moment ; their railways are made of hairpins and match-sticks, and most of their good luck lives in their woods and mines and rivers and not in their brains ; but for all that, they be the biggest; finest, and best people on the surface of the globe ! Just you wait a hundred years and see how...
Page 199 - Sorbonne, where he maintained argument against the theologians for the space of six weeks, from four o'clock in the morning till six in the evening, except for an interval of two hours to refresh themselves and take their repasts, and at this were present the greatest part of the lords of the court, the masters of request, presidents, counsellors, those of the accompts, secretaries, advocates, and others ; as also the sheriffs of the said town." — Pantagruel. " THE Bengal Legislative Council is...
Page 120 - Much have I seen, Cities and men." LET there be no misunderstanding about the matter. I love this People, and if any contemptuous criticism has to be done, I will do it myself. My heart has gone out to them beyond all other peoples ; and for the life of me I cannot tell why.