Curiosities of Impecuniosity

There is a letter extant, written to Sir Francis Walsingham in 1586, in which the writer speaks "with pious indignation of overcrowded playhouses and deserted churches;" and say...

That memory of William Makepeace Thackeray upon which I care least to dwell is the low estimate he had of men of genius in his own profession. It may be that this was with him,...

Although at first sight the condition of impecuniosity seems more calculated to produce practicality, and render persons matter-of-fact, in the foregoing chapters there have not...

If there be two things on earth that may be said to have a more direct affinity for each other than aught else, those two things are Painting and Poverty. The artistic records o...

Shakespeare, though he says "There's a divinity doth shape our ends, rough-hew them how we will," admits that "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood,...

In 1748 there resided in the wilds of Connaught a lady named Gunning, of whom little is known but that before her marriage she was the Hon. Bridget Bourke, and that after it she...

In the opening chapter, several instances of considerable ingenuity were referred to; but as the conduct of the individuals in question was not _sans peur et sans reproche_, the...

It must be admitted that impecuniosity is impartial, the peer and the peasant being equally open to its visits, and the Sovereign, under certain conditions, as liable to its inf...

"I wish the good old times would come again, when we were not quite so rich," says Bridget Elia. "I am sure we were a great deal happier. A purchase is but a purchase now that y...