Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
PAGE A Visit to Carlyle in 1868 1 Early Morning in January 14 March 16 June 18 August 20 The End of October 22 November 25 The Break-up of a Great Drought 28 Spinoza 32 Supplementary Note on the Devil 58 Injustice 62 Time Settles Controversies 64 Talking about our Troubles 66...
I was condemned, I foresaw, henceforth to solitude, and that most terrible of all calamities, heart-starvation. What B. had said about M. came into my mind and rose to my lips....
7. Chapter 7Many persons will be inclined to think that Goethe, so far from putting Byron on a lower level than that usually assigned to him, has over-praised him, and will question the “bu...
3. Chapter 3“This love to God cannot be defiled either by the effect of envy or jealousy, but is the more strengthened the more people we imagine to be connected with God by the same bond o...
12. Chapter 12Next week there was another tea-party at Mrs. Cobb’s. The ladies were in high spirits, for a subject of conversation was assured. If there had been an inquest, or a marriage, or...
2. Chapter 2A couple of gulls rise from the base of the cliffs to a height of about a hundred feet above them. They turn their heads to the south-west, and hover like hawks, but without any...
11. Chapter 11“What’s that got to do with it? You may be sure I knew my place when I went there. Fit? Yes, it did fit; them sort of women, it stands to reason, are just the women to fit you.”
10. Chapter 10MY DEAR GODFATHER,—You are most disappointing and evasive. I gave up the discussion on Latin and Greek, but I did and do want your reply to a most simple question. If you had to...
4. Chapter 4WHAT is most to be envied in really religious people of the earlier type is their intellectual and moral peace. They had obtained certain convictions, a certain conception of th...
9. Chapter 9March 10th.—My sister and my brother-in-law came to-day and I wished them away. Now that my husband is dead I discover that the frequent visitors to our house came to see him an...
6. Chapter 6Experience and alliances are plausibly urged as indispensable for success. But Jesus knew that the sum total of a man’s power for good is precisely what of good there is in him...
5. Chapter 5But it is in the _Bride of Lammermoor_ more particularly that the use of the supernatural is not only blameless but indispensable. We begin to rise to it in that scene in which...
1. Chapter 1PAGE A Visit to Carlyle in 1868 1 Early Morning in January 14 March 16 June 18 August 20 The End of October 22 November 25 The Break-up of a Great Drought 28 Spinoza 32 Suppleme...
13. Chapter 13In a couple of months Langborough was astounded at the news of the Rector’s marriage with a Mrs. Leighton whom nobody in Langborough knew. The advertisement in the _Stamford Mer...