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...Scottish scenery: "The noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London." But he could poke fun at himself as well; asked if he would not start if he saw a ghost, he answered, "I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." But if the tour aroused Johnson's antic side, it aroused his antiquarian side even more. On the islands - Raasay and Skye and Mull - there were still feudal forms of life, clans and chieftains, Macdonalds and MacLeods and Macleans. There were ruins and grottoes, homely customs...
...interest in me," Empson once irreverently wrote, "a sense that this could be a good place to scratch." By close analysis, Empson has washed away many misreadings of poetry; by showing how varied and inventive poets are, he has often made them more exciting. But he may also frighten off readers who translate his lesson as: if you think you understand a poem, there is something wrong with you−or the poem. As a result, many a reader has felt that poetry was less a pleasure than a test, and decided not to bother with...
...detached when he added: "The Americans may fight 15 years there, but it will not help." Although he warned the U.S. against nuclear competition with Russia, and incidentally announced that he would resume testing, on the whole the Soviet Premier thought that the international situation was good: "The Americans frighten us with war, and we frighten them back a bit. They threaten us with nuclear arms, and we tell them: 'We have them too.' This is the situation, and this is why we think the situation is good...
...Billy Sunday-Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first...
...lowered the boom at the first late payment, embezzled the savings of his ignorant tenants, and screamed at them just to stay in abad humor. When beggars knocked at his door, he screwed up his face till he looked like a huge, ferocious dog, and snarled and barked to frighten them away...