Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The Pleasantest of Companions, Most Constant of Friends, Who Seeks not Flattery but Counsel, Provoked on Occasion only And never Vexing beyond Endurance, Wise with Ancient Wisdom, And Fresh from the Fountain of Youth--
The Pleasantest of Companions, Most Constant of Friends, Who Seeks not Flattery but Counsel, Provoked on Occasion only And never Vexing beyond Endurance, Wise with Ancient Wisdo...
2. Part 2This piano solo was the nearest approach to chamber music that a thorough search and research revealed in the island of Trinacria. But afterwards, recollecting the misadventure...
3. Part 3'Four o'clock! Why, there was no train until seven! No train for three hours! The eggs would spoil! Then with a rush it came over me that this was Sunday morning, and there was...
4. Part 4At all events, don't take this matter of the clubs too hard. For those youths, comparatively few, who by luck and circumstances find themselves eligible to them, they are an int...
5. Part 5'When I studied physics,' Honoria went on, 'I learned that science had been compelled to posit ether, an all-pervading, absolutely elastic, wave-bearing substance, to explain th...
6. Part 6This highly plaster-cast lyric was recited during the 'triomphe' held at Chenonceaux to celebrate the arrival there of François II and Mary Stuart. The hostess was as distinguis...
7. Part 7But Chenonceaux hadn't changed, Chenonceaux looked just as young as ever. Its bright, serene aspect showed no confusion at changing masters so often. To my friends it more than...
8. Part 8'Now therein of all sciences,' said Sir Philip Sidney, 'is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice an...
9. Part 9No lesson of the Civil War was more striking than that taught by the swift transitions of our citizen soldiery from civil to military life, and back again. This impressed me as...
10. Part 10The smug complacency of Hannah More and her sisterhood was rudely disturbed by Ebenezer Elliott, who published his _Corn-Law Rhymer_, with its profound pity and its somewhat imp...
11. Part 11Bag in hand, brother stops in for fifteen minutes, from campaigning, to get some clean shirts. He says the candidate will be in town day after to-morrow. Do we want him to come...
12. Part 12Simple, humorous, average American man! You have left your suburban couch in time to walk half a mile to the station and catch the 7.59 for the city. You have read your morning...
13. Part 13Moreover, they were sophisticated--and not merely out of books. The Faust idea, having prevailed for many centuries, has at last been abandoned--and perhaps, our sober sense may...
14. Part 14Unlike M. Jourdain, who had been speaking prose all his life without knowing it, I have been writing it nearly all of mine, quite consciously, and earning my living thereby sinc...
15. Part 15We have stifled our language, we have debased it, we have been afraid of it. But some day it will reassert itself, for it is stronger than we, alike our overlord and avatar. Dee...
16. Part 16Indoors, dear indoors! I would I might plead its cause a little here. Does no one ever pause to reflect that there was never any outdoors at all until indoors was created? The t...
17. Part 17In such ways as these the right-minded person will meet his discontents face to face, and one by one eliminate them. He will also take stock of his assets. St. Teresa said that...