Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought
To orient pearls.
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Second Week, Third Day, Part i. Compare: "Now morn, her rosy steps in th’ eastern clime, Advancing, sow’d the earth with orient pearl", John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book v, line 1.; "Orient pearls", William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act iv. sc. 1.Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
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Go boldly forth, my simple lay,
Whose accents flow with artless ease,
Like orient pearls at random strung.William (philologist) Jones
Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!
Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spread
O'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,
And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.William Somervile
The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.… The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.
Edward Said
One might as well claim that the tide which rubs pebbles smooth on a beach is doing the pebbles a service because being round is prettier than being jagged. It's of no concern to a pebble what shape it is. But it's very important to a person.
John Brunner
I have always paid great attention to natural forms , such as bones, shells, and pebbles, etc. Sometimes for several years running I have been to the same part of the seashore – but each year a new shape of pebble has caught my eye, which the year before, though it was there in hundreds, I never saw.. ..Pebbles show Nature’s way of working stone. Some of the pebbles I pick up have holes right through them.. ..A piece of stone can have (for the sculptor, fh) a hole through it and not be weakened – if the hole is of a studied size, shape and direction. On the principle of the arch, it can remain just as strong.
Henry Moore
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