In one place it is said that a landowner was ruined by doing up his house in Moscow in the fashionable taste
“But the sovereign himself is building a palace in Moscow!” said the censor.
Gogol on the censorship of Dead Souls, 1842
“But the sovereign himself is building a palace in Moscow!” said the censor.
Gogol on the censorship of Dead Souls, 1842
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least