"I shall start a petition to have your statue erected beside Glinda's in the
public square," said the Keeper.
In the middle of this groined and vaulted
public square was an oaken table which they called the Table Round.
He presently got safely beyond the reach of capture and punishment, and hastened toward the
public square of the village, where two "military" companies of boys had met for conflict, according to previous appointment.
In front of the academy was a vacant piece of ground, that was intended for a
public square. On the side opposite to Mr.
Our room in the hotel faced the main
public square, and the sights there--the people coming in from the country with all kinds of beautiful flowers to sell, the women coming in with their dogs drawing large, brightly polished cans filled with milk, the people streaming into the cathedral--filled me with a sense of newness that I had never before experienced.
In order to become majestic, it should be viewed from some vantage point, as it rolls its slow and long array through the centre of a wide plain, or the stateliest
public square of a city; for then, by its remoteness, it melts all the petty personalities, of which it is made up, into one broad mass of existence,--one great life,--one collected body of mankind, with a vast, homogeneous spirit animating it.
Well, they held the auction in the
public square, along towards the end of the afternoon, and it strung along, and strung along, and the old man he was on hand and looking his level pisonest, up there longside of the auctioneer, and chipping in a little Scripture now and then, or a little goody-goody saying of some kind, and the duke he was around goo-gooing for sym- pathy all he knowed how, and just spreading himself generly.
Thought, under the form of edifice, could have beheld itself burned in the
public square by the hands of the executioner, in its manuscript form, if it had been sufficiently imprudent to risk itself thus; thought, as the door of a church, would have been a spectator of the punishment of thought as a book.
"On the fourth morning, the high priest, by rubbing dry wood together, produces new fire in the
public square, from whence every habitation in the town is supplied with the new and pure flame."
"Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue," said Michael Angelo to the young sculptor; "the light of the
public square will test its value."
And to think that I once voted against that angel for Inspector of Gate-latches in
Public Squares!"
In the court-yards of the private dwellings, and on the
public squares, grew palms and caoutchouc-trees topped with a dome of foliage more than one hundred feet in breadth.