Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
In the short review of the present state of English Art, given you last year, I left necessarily many points untouched, and others unexplained. The seventh lecture, which I did not think it necessary to read aloud, furnished you with some of the corrective statements of which,...
And the association of this truth in loving conception, with the general honesty and truth of the character, is again conclusively shown in the feelings of the lover to his mist...
3. Chapter 3"There was in the neighbourhood of Worcester, 'far from men in the wilderness, on the slope of a wood, in a cave deep down in the grey rock,' a holy hermit 'of great age, living...
2. Chapter 2Of, Justinian, and his work, I am not able myself to form any opinion--and it is, I think, unnecessary for students of history to form any, until they are able to estimate clear...
4. Chapter 4Their faith then, I tell you first, was sincere; I tell you secondly that it was, in a degree few of us can now conceive, joyful. We continually hear of the trials, sometimes of...
5. Chapter 5The next sentence is a curious one. I pray your attention to it. "The defensive system of the Norman is born of a profound sentiment of _distrust_ and _cunning, foreign to the c...
1. Chapter 1In the short review of the present state of English Art, given you last year, I left necessarily many points untouched, and others unexplained. The seventh lecture, which I did...
7. Chapter 7How far into Alfred's soul, at seven years old, sank any true image of what Rome was, and had been; of what her Lion Lord was, who had saved her from the Saracen, and her Lion L...
8. Chapter 8ART CULTURE. With Illustrations, cloth extra. 2 50 LETTERS AND ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES. Cloth extra. 50 PEARLS FOR YOUNG LADIES. Cloth extra. 1 25 PRECIOUS THOUGHTS. Cloth extra....