Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Among his many titles to the special consideration and gratitude of his countrymen, James Russell Lowell had one in pre-eminence--an unyielding loyalty to all that was best in American ideas and aims. It was this quality that gave point to the wit of Hosea Biglow, and loftines...
Among his many titles to the special consideration and gratitude of his countrymen, James Russell Lowell had one in pre-eminence--an unyielding loyalty to all that was best in A...
2. Part 2The fashion of this world passed away, but the fashion of those things which belonged to the world of imagination--and it was most emphatically in that world that Mr. Browning h...
3. Part 3I should more deeply regret my inability to be present at the interesting ceremonial of the 17th were it not that my countrymen will be more fitly and adequately represented the...
4. Part 4I did not intend to detain you so long as I have (_cries of “Go on”_), but I have also in my experience of after-dinner speeches observed that a speech is like an ill-broken hor...