Comfort Found in Good Old Books

To understand even an outline of the _Divine Comedy_ one must know a few facts about the life of Dante and the experiences that matured his mind and found expression in this gre...

The great poem of German literature, _The Nibelungenlied_, may be bracketed with _The Arabian Nights_, for it expresses perfectly the ideals of the ancient Germans, the historic...

In this world, in very truth, you reap what you sow. If you have made a study of fine music, beautiful paintings and statuary and the best books, you cannot fail to get liberal...

_Among men of New England strain like myself it is easy to labor long hours, to endure nervous strain, to sacrifice comfort and ease for the sake of their dear ones; but men of...

_Macbeth_ represents ambition, linked with superstition and weakness of will; the fruit is an evil brood--remorse struggles with desire for power, affection is torn by the malig...

Daniel Defoe, the son of a butcher, was born in 1661 and died in 1731. Much of his career is still a puzzle to literary students because of his extraordinary passion for secrecy...

Through many a dark and dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens and shades of death-- A...

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The versions of Homer's _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_ are numerous but most readers who do not know Greek prefer the prose rendering of the _Iliad_ by Lang, Leaf and Myers and the prose...

Swift foretold very accurately the great vogue that _Gulliver's Travels_ would have. In writing to Arbuthnot he said: "I will make over all my profits (in a certain work) for th...