Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
"Then I saw in my dream, that, when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair."
Vauxhall is one of the delusions of London life. It lives on the past--a very common practice in this country, where real knowledge travels very slowly. When Smith comes up to L...
11. Part 11In one of the remotest of the Fejee Islands some Wesleyan missionaries, in the year 1851, landed a pair of horses. We read general excitement prevailed at the towns near, and a...
10. Part 10On a Monday morning, especially on the Eastern Counties lines, the trains running into town have an unusually large number of passengers. They consist generally of the jolly-loo...
12. Part 12According to Mr. Knight, when Henry VIII. had stripped Wolsey of Whitehall, and other possessions, he constructed there, for the amusement of his leisure, a tennis-court, a bowl...
4. Part 4Most of them live well, and are protected against the inclemencies of the weather. The reporters of the _Daily News_ and _Times_ come down in cabs, but they appear delicate hoth...
2. Part 2But we have been already some time in the House. Hours have come and gone--day has faded into night. Suddenly, from the painted glass ceiling above, a mellow light has streamed...
8. Part 8Generation after generation had struggled for their rights, and numerous Acts were passed to redress their grievances; but no sooner was an Act passed than ways and means were f...
3. Part 3We can never fancy the House of Lords to be what you may sometimes take the House of Commons to be--a bear garden or a menagerie. You miss the vulgarity of the one, and you also...
5. Part 5knows him. In "Tara's halls" he has superseded the harp, and is a presence and a power. Before newspapers were, when Addison was writing the "Spectator," and Dick Steele "Tatler...
9. Part 9Now let us return to our friend Carroty Bill. As we have intimated, he is in the ward appropriated to such cases. One of the professors is now going his round, accompanied by hi...
6. Part 6Well, popular enthusiasm has toned down--the audience has reseated itself--a song of welcome has been sung, and there stands up a man of middle size and middle age. Lord Bacon d...
1. Part 1"Then I saw in my dream, that, when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a f...
13. Part 13"The subject is an interesting one, and it is treated with very considerable ability. Mr. Ritchie has the valuable art of saying many things in few words; he is never diffuse, n...