Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
In an age when everybody is writing Reminiscences, and when nothing is left untold, we hear a great deal about the wit and brilliancy of former days and former conversations. Elderly gentlemen, conscious of an ever increasing dulness in life, would fain have us believe that it...
In an age when everybody is writing Reminiscences, and when nothing is left untold, we hear a great deal about the wit and brilliancy of former days and former conversations. El...
2. Part 2There is a charming and gracious dogma of Roman Catholicism which would have us believe that all good deeds and holy prayers make up a spiritual treasury, a public fund, from wh...
3. Part 3Around Fielding’s heroines the battle has raged for years. These kind-hearted, sweet-tempered creatures have been very charming in men’s eyes. Scott loved Sophia Western as if s...
4. Part 4What pleasantness of teaching there is in books,--how easy, how secret! How safely we lay bare the poverty of human ignorance to books, without feeling any shame! They are maste...
5. Part 5It was a genial invitation, betokening that tolerance of mind rarely found in the travelling Saxon, who is fortified against beggars, as against many other foreign institutions,...
6. Part 6In good truth there were shrines in plenty at home. Glastonbury, the resting-place of Joseph of Arimathea, where grew the holy thorn-tree; Bury Saint Edmunds, where all might se...
7. Part 7None of these dallyings with the world, the flesh, and the devil, no glimpses into the fast-growing dissipation of the gayest and most extravagant city in the colonies, find a r...
8. Part 8M. Brunetière frankly admits the inferiority of the French lyric, an inferiority which he attributes to the predominance of social characteristics in the literature, as in the l...
9. Part 9This is assuming that there _are_ no interests outside of marriage; no emotions, ambitions, nor obligations unconnected with the rearing of children. We are invited to believe t...
10. Part 10What a sombre and striking figure in the deeply coloured background of history is the headsman, that passive agent of strange tyrannies, that masked executor of laws which were...
11. Part 11Yet something of the old glamour, the glamour with which the Serpent beguiled Eve, still hangs about historic sins, making them--as Plutarch knew--more attractive than historic...
12. Part 12No engagement at Drury Lane was procurable. Indeed, Miss Clairmont soon ceased to desire one. Her infatuation for Lord Byron drove all other thoughts and hopes and ambitions fro...
13. Part 13“I went the other day to see Allegra at her convent, and stayed with her about three hours. She is grown tall and slight for her age, and her face is somewhat altered. She yet r...