Ernest Maltravers — Volume 03

The Beautiful Clime!--the Clime of Love! Thou beautiful Italy! Like a mother's eyes, the earnest skies Ever have smiles for thee! Not a flower that blows, not a beam that glows,...

"It cannot be too deeply impressed on the mind, that application is the price to be paid for mental acquisitions, and that it is as absurd to expect them without it as to hope f...

"Alas! what boots it with incessant care To strictly meditate the thankless Muse; Were I not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles...

ERNEST MALTRAVERS spent much of his time with the family of De Montaigne. There is no period of life in which we are more accessible to the sentiment of friendship than in the i...