Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Indeed, and in truth, one is rarely natural save under deep emotions. After all my resolutions and determinations, I found I was not able to part from those I love with any degree of composure.
Indeed, and in truth, one is rarely natural save under deep emotions. After all my resolutions and determinations, I found I was not able to part from those I love with any degr...
3. PART I.This other Eden, demi-paradise; This fortress built by nature for herself, Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone...
4. Act II, Scene 1, Line 42.Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brush-wood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole ar...
5. PART II.The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever-free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds, it mock...
6. Act IV, Scene 1, Line 153.During the early hours of yesterday morning we reached Smyrna, one of the seven cities spoken of in the Book of Revelation, and we spent the day in its odd, underground bazaars....
7. Act I, Scene 3, Line 275.We arrived in Vienna with the Emperor. In fact, we acted as his advance guard for some time, his train following ours. The Emperor himself was but a small part of the show, for...
8. Act IV, Scene 1, Line 68.Munich is a city of wealth. It is the Mecca for students of art and music and the starting-point for the three wondrous castles built by the Mad King of Bavaria, as well as for...
9. Act I, Scene 3, Line 13.It is more than worth while! It is necessary! That which one will comprehensively absorb during any journey depends largely upon what one has read. This is especially true of fo...
10. Act I, Scene 1, Line 5.11. Act II, Scene 4, Line 74.12. Act I, Scene 2, Line 166.Ruskin: Stones of Venice; Mornings in Florence; Seven Lamps, notes on Turner and notes on Pre-Raphaelitism; Hortus Inclusus, notes on pictures in the Royal Academy, and guide to...