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The "Faëry Queen" of Edmund Spenser is before us,--a vast and glittering mausoleum, in which the purpose of the constructor has long been entombed, we fear without hope of a happy resurrection. Nevertheless, into this splendid ruin, hieroglyphed with the most brilliant images...
The "Faëry Queen" of Edmund Spenser is before us,--a vast and glittering mausoleum, in which the purpose of the constructor has long been entombed, we fear without hope of a hap...
2. Chapter 2The chief evidence on which we shall have to rely in this case must be of a similar nature with the former;--not that we shall have to interpret allegories, but the true reading...
3. Chapter 3A year had passed since Maddy's flitting. The skimped delaine was sadly rusty,--Miss Wimple very poor. The profits of the Hendrik Athenæum and Circulating Library accrued in slo...
4. Chapter 4When the neat and modest little mistress of the Hendrik Athenæum and Circulating Library descended to open the shop and take down the bars, all her sense of delicacy was shocked...
5. Chapter 5The "nest" looked out upon the street by two front windows, that were immediately over the sign of the Hendrik Athenæum and Circulating Library. There was also a small side-wind...
6. Chapter 6as an instance of that insane benevolence which he reprobates, and accordingly punished it with an epistle the reading of which would delay the consummation of the edacious trea...