"Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain."

"I love it, I love it, and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?"

"Joint-stools were then created; on three legs Upborne they stood. Three legs upholding firm A massy slab, in fashion …"

"Ingenious Fancy, never better pleased Than when employ'd t' accommodate the fair, Heard the sweet moan of pity, and d…"

"Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And Luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last."

"When on my three-foot stool I sit."

"I ask El Espinal mayors not to allow more events involving the death of people or animals [after the bullfighting sta…"

"The Roman public's thirst for blood and pleasure in witnessing pain seems to have been unquenchable and without limit…"

"What you are interested in is the art whereby a man using no tricks reduces a raging bull to his dimensions, and this…"

"He was an admirer of the bullfight, and had once drawn my attention to the fact that only cricket and bullfighting ha…"