Jones Very

The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As…

— Jones Very

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life,…

— Jones Very

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but…

— Jones Very

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

— Jones Very

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and…

— Jones Very

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled;…

— Jones Very

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

— Jones Very