Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
THE TOMB OF KEATS 1 KEATS'S SONNET ON BLUE 4 DINNERS AND DISHES 8 SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY 10 'HENRY THE FOURTH' AT OXFORD 15 A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE 18 TO READ OR NOT TO READ 21 THE LETTERS OF A GREAT WOMAN 22 BERANGER IN ENGLAND 27 THE POETRY OF THE PEOPLE 29 'THE CENCI' 32 BAL...
Indeed, the artist who really has suffered through the modern mounting of plays is not the dramatist at all, but the scene-painter proper. He is rapidly being displaced by the s...
13. Chapter 13Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. Now and then, however, one comes across a volume that is so far above the average that one can...
14. Chapter 14The wings of the south-west wind are widened; the breath of his fervent lips, More keen than a sword's edge, fiercer than fire, falls full on the plunging ships. The pilot is he...
16. Chapter 16The Apostolic dictum, that women should not be suffered to teach, is no longer applicable to a society such as ours, with its solidarity of interests, its recognition of natural...
15. Chapter 15I may frankly confess now that at the time I did not quite comprehend what Mr. Pater really meant; and it was not till I had carefully studied his beautiful and suggestive essay...
6. Chapter 6As for individual passages of special merit, Mr. Morris's translation is no robe of rags sewn with purple patches for critics to sample. Its real value lies in the absolute righ...
7. Chapter 7These are the broad principles contained in Mr. Mahaffy's clever little book, and many of them will, no doubt, commend themselves to our readers. The maxim, 'If you find the com...
4. Chapter 4On the poetry of the sixteenth century Mr. Symonds has, of course, a great deal to say, and on such subjects he always writes with ease, grace, and delicacy of perception. We ad...
8. Chapter 8In philosophy she was a Platonist, in politics an Opportunist. She attached herself to no particular party. She loved the people when they were king-like, and kings when they sh...
10. Chapter 10The king, aided by Colbert, determined to make France the centre, if possible, for lace manufacture, sending for this purpose both to Venice and to Flanders for workers. The stu...
5. Chapter 5The Princess Christian's translation of the _Memoirs of Wilhelmine_, _Margravine of Baireuth_, is a most fascinating and delightful book. The Margravine and her brother, Frederi...
12. Chapter 12Summers and falls, I used to go off, sometimes for a week at a stretch, down in the country, or to Long Island's seashores--there, in the presence of outdoor influences, I went...
9. Chapter 9As for Madame Sand's private life, which is so intimately connected with her art (for, like Goethe, she had to live her romances before she could write them), M. Caro says hardl...
1. Chapter 1THE TOMB OF KEATS 1 KEATS'S SONNET ON BLUE 4 DINNERS AND DISHES 8 SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY 10 'HENRY THE FOURTH' AT OXFORD 15 A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE 18 TO READ OR NOT TO READ 21 T...
3. Chapter 3Dans nos palais, ou, pres de la victoire, Brillaient les arts, doux fruits des beaux climats, J'ai vu du Nord les peuplades sans gloire, De leurs manteaux secouer les frimas.
11. Chapter 11I heard from Lord Lansdowne two or three days ago. . . . I think he is _ce que nous avons de mieux_. He wants only the energy that great ambition gives. He says, 'We shall have...
17. Chapter 17Certainly dialect is dramatic. It is a vivid method of re-creating a past that never existed. It is something between 'A Return to Nature' and 'A Return to the Glossary.' It is...