Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes, And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.
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No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
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Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
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Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
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In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
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