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| Alice Meynell | The Children — Alice Meynell |
The Children “To attend to a living child is to be baffled in your humour, disappointed of your pathos, and set freshly free from all the pre- occupations. You cannot anticipate him. Blackbirds,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alice Meynell | The Colour of Life — Alice Meynell |
The Colour of Life “The brilliant talent which has quite lately and quite suddenly arisen, to devote itself to the use of the day or of the week, in illustrated papers - the enormous production of art…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alice Meynell | Hearts of Controversy — Alice Meynell |
Hearts of Controversy “Fifty years after Tennyson's birth he was saluted a great poet by that unanimous acclamation which includes mere clamour. Fifty further years, and his centenary was marked by a new…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alice Meynell | Essays — Alice Meynell |
Essays “A childish pleasure in producing small mechanical effects unaided must have some part in the sense of enterprise wherewith you gird your shoulders with the tackle, and set out, alo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alice Meynell | Ceres' Runaway and Other Essays — Alice Meynell |
Ceres' Runaway and Other Essays “Trouble did not "try" the Elizabethan wild one, it undid her. She had no child, or if there had ever been a child of hers, she had long forgotten how it died. She hailed the wayfar…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alice Meynell | The Rhythm of Life — Alice Meynell |
The Rhythm of Life “Nevertheless, before it is too late, let me assert that though nature is not always clearly and obviously made to man's measure, he is yet the unit by which she is measurable. The …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alice Meynell | Poems — by Alice Meynell |
Poems “My heart shall be thy garden. Come, my own,/Into thy garden; thine be happy hours/Among my fairest thoughts, my tallest flowers,/From root to crowning petal, thine alone.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alice Meynell | The Spirit of Place and Other Essays — Alice Meynell |
The Spirit of Place and Other Essays “The world at present is inclined to make sorry mysteries or unattractive secrets of the methods and supplies of the fresh and perennial means of life. A very dull secret is made of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alice Meynell | Later Poems — Alice Meynell |
Later Poems “Along the graceless grass of town/ They rake the rows of red and brown,/ Dead leaves, unlike the rows of hay,/ Delicate, neither gold nor grey,/ Raked long ago and far away.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Alice Meynell | Flower of the Mind — Alice Meynell |
Flower of the Mind “Colonel Richard Lovelace, an enchanting poet, is hardly read, except for two poems which are as famous as any in our language. Perhaps the rumour of his conceits has frightened his…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | The Awakening of the Negro — Booker T. Washington |
The Awakening of the Negro “One of the objections sometimes urged against industrial education for the negro is that it aims merely to teach him to work on the same plan that he was made to follow when in sla…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | Heroes in Black Skins — Booker T. Washington |
Heroes in Black Skins “There was no slave in all the South who had more earnestly longed for freedom than he had, and now the moment had come when he could obtain that for which he had so long wished. I …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | The Case of the Negro — Booker T. Washington |
The Case of the Negro “In order that we may concentrate our forces upon a wise object, without loss of time or effort, I want to suggest what seems to me and many others the wisest policy to be pursued. …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance? — Booker T. Washington |
Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance? “From an economic point of view, the negro in the North, when compared with the white man, does not have a fair chance. This is the feeling not only of the colored people themselves…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | The Fruits of Industrial Training — Booker T. Washington |
The Fruits of Industrial Training “In matters of education the difference was much less sharp. The truth is that a large element in the South had little faith in the efficacy of the higher or any other kind of educa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | Negro Progress in Virginia — Booker T. Washington |
Negro Progress in Virginia “It has been my pleasure, under the auspices of Hampton Institute, to make several trips recently, with Major Moton and others, through the tidewater counties of Virginia, and in ea…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America. Volume 2. — Rufus Dawes |
Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America. Volume 2. “Nor were matters in a more tranquil condition in the neighboring country-towns. The same spirit was abroad in Braintree, Dedham, Roxbury, Dorchester, Watertown, and generally throu…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | The Religious Life of the Negro — Booker T. Washington |
The Religious Life of the Negro “This illustrates one of the difficulties that we have to contend with to-day. In our Tuskegee Negro Conference, we have constantly to insist that the people draw moral distinctions…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | Negro Self-Help — Booker T. Washington |
Negro Self-Help “First, then, it is well to say that there are very few orphan asylums anywhere for Negro children. Possibly in nine or ten cases Negro families care for the orphans of their race i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | Signs of Progress among the Negroes — Booker T. Washington |
Signs of Progress among the Negroes “Many of the most intelligent colored people are learning that while there are many bad white men in the South, there are Southern whites who have the highest interests of the negro…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | Up From Slavery — Booker T. Washington |
Up From Slavery “No one connected with the boarding department seemed to have any idea that meals must be served at certain fixed and regular hours, and this was a source of great worry. Everything…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | Teamwork — Booker T. Washington |
Teamwork “We want to have teamwork in the direction of keeping down waste. That is the same thing as useless expense. If each one will make up his mind that he is going to help the general s…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Booker T. Washington | Tuskegee: A Retrospect and Prospect — Booker T. Washington |
Tuskegee: A Retrospect and Prospect “As far as the right of colored people to buy pianos and organs is concerned, I think the Negroes should feel that they have the same right that any other people have. I do think, h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Their Pilgrimage — Charles Dudley Warner |
Their Pilgrimage “t was to him a serious affair ever since that unsatisfactory note from Miss Benson; somehow the summer had lost its sparkle. And yet was it not preposterous that a girl, just a sin…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Little Journey in the World — Charles Dudley Warner |
Little Journey in the World “We were talking about the want of diversity in American life, the lack of salient characters. It was not at a club. It was a spontaneous talk of people who happened to be together,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Washington Irving — Charles Dudley Warner |
Washington Irving “The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. The popularity of an author seems to depend quite as much upon fashion or whim as upon a change in…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | The Golden House — Charles Dudley Warner |
The Golden House “It was near midnight: The company gathered in a famous city studio were under the impression, diligently diffused in the world, that the end of the century is a time of license if …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | That Fortune — Charles Dudley Warner |
That Fortune “And yet this was only a corner of the boy's imagination. He had many worlds and he lived in each by turn. There was the world of the Old Testament, of David and Samson, and of thos…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Nine Short Essays — Charles Dudley Warner |
Nine Short Essays “Perhaps the most curious and interesting phrase ever put into a public document is "the pursuit of happiness." It is declared to be an inalienable right. It cannot be sold. It cann…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | The People For Whom Shakespeare Wrote — Charles Dudley Warner |
The People For Whom Shakespeare Wrote “The question is often asked, but I consider it an idle one, whether Shakespeare was appreciated in his own day as he is now. That the age, was unable to separate him from itself, a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Pilgrim and American — Charles Dudley Warner |
Pilgrim and American “This proud feeling of citizenship is a substantial part of a man's enjoyment of life; and there is a certain compensation for hardships, for privations, for self-sacrifice, in the …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | On Horseback — Charles Dudley Warner |
On Horseback “The Professor and the Friend of Humanity were about starting on a journey, across country southward, through regions about which the people of Abingdon could give little useful inf…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Novel and The Common School — Charles Dudley Warner |
Novel and The Common School “The other test of popular education is in the kind of reading sought and enjoyed by the majority of the American people. As the greater part of this reading is admitted to be ficti…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Modern Fiction — Charles Dudley Warner |
Modern Fiction “When we praise our recent fiction for its photographic fidelity to nature we condemn it, for we deny to it the art which would give it value. We forget that the creation of the nov…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Literary Copyright — Charles Dudley Warner |
Literary Copyright “The relation between author and publisher ought to be neither complicated nor peculiar. The author may sell his product outright, or he may sell himself by an agreement similar to …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Relation of Literature to Life — Charles Dudley Warner |
Relation of Literature to Life “I hade a vision once--you may all have had a like one--of the stream of time flowing through a limitless land. Along its banks sprang up in succession the generations of man. They …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | The Indeterminate Sentence — What Shall Be Done With The Criminal Class? |
The Indeterminate Sentence “An indeterminate sentence is a commitment to prison without any limit. It is exactly such a commitment as the court makes to an asylum of a man who is proved to be insane, and it i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Mr. Froude's Progress — Charles Dudley Warner |
Mr. Froude's Progress “There are two sorts of infidelity concerning humanity, and I do not know which is the more withering in its effects. One is that which regards this world as only a waste and a dese…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Fashions in Literature — Charles Dudley Warner |
Fashions in Literature “The more important result of the study of past fashions, in engravings and paintings, remains to be spoken of. It is that in all the illustrations, from the simplicity of Athens, t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Equality — Charles Dudley Warner |
Equality “The well-known theory upon which Rousseau's superstructure rests is that society is the result of a compact, a partnership between men. They have not made an agreement to submit th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | England — Charles Dudley Warner |
England “England has played a part in modern history altogether out of proportion to its size. The whole of Great Britain, including Ireland, has only eleven thousand more square miles than…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Diversities of American Life — Charles Dudley Warner |
Diversities of American Life “a striking social feature of the period is that one-half--that is hardly an overestimate-- one-half of the activity in America of which we speak with so much enthusiasm, is not dir…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | What is Your Culture to Me — Charles Dudley Warner |
What is Your Culture to Me “The world, however, is not very much excited. The birth of a child is in itself marvelous, but it is so common. Over and over again, for hundreds of years, these young gentlemen ha…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Some Causes of the Prevailing Discontent — Charles Dudley Warner |
Some Causes of the Prevailing Discontent “In view of the general amelioration of the conditions of life this seems unreasonable and illogical, but it may seem less so when we reflect that human nature is unchanged, and tha…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Being a Boy — Charles Dudley Warner |
Being a Boy “One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, though it needs some practice to be a good one. The disadvantage of the position is that it does not …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | As We Go — Charles Dudley Warner |
As We Go “In social life it is infinitely worse. You, an electric unmarried man, enter a room full of attractive women. How are you to know who is positive and who is negative, or who is a m…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | How Spring Came in New England — Charles Dudley Warner |
How Spring Came in New England “. The delusion is complete, when, on a mild evening, the tree-toads open their brittle- brattle chorus on the edge of the pond. The citizen asks his neighbor, "Did you hear the fro…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | My Summer in a Garden — Charles Dudley Warner |
My Summer in a Garden “The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | In the Wilderness — Charles Dudley Warner |
In the Wilderness “The encounter was unpremeditated on both sides. I was not hunting for a bear, and I have no reason to suppose that a bear was looking for me. The fact is, that we were both out bla…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Backlog Studies — Charles Dudley Warner |
Backlog Studies “I would as soon have an Englishman without side-whiskers as a fire without a big backlog; and I would rather have no fire than one that required no tending,--one of dead wood that …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Baddeck and That Sort of Thing — Charles Dudley Warner |
Baddeck and That Sort of Thing “Give us the quiet of a city on the night before a journey. As we mounted skyward in our hotel, and went to bed in a serene altitude, we congratulated ourselves upon a reposeful nig…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Saunterings — Charles Dudley Warner |
Saunterings “I wonder if it is the Channel? Almost everything is laid to the Channel: it has no friends. The sailors call it the nastiest bit of water in the world. All travelers anathematize i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Kingsley | Sir Walter Raleigh and his Times — Charles Kingsley |
Sir Walter Raleigh and his Times “And yet in this mood, as in most, there is a sort of left-handed truth involved. These heroes are not so far removed from us after all. They were men of like passions with ourselve…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Kingsley | Plays and Puritans — Charles Kingsley |
Plays and Puritans “The historian of a time of change has always a difficult and invidious task. For Revolutions, in the great majority of cases, arise not merely from the crimes of a few great men, b…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Kingsley | Historical Lectures and Essays — Charles Kingsley |
Historical Lectures and Essays “I wish to speak to you to-night about one of those old despotic empires which were in every case the earliest known form of civilisation. Were I minded to play the cynic or the mou…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Kingsley | Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore — Charles Kingsley |
Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore “We shall agree at least that the study of Natural History has become now-a-days an honourable one. A Cromarty stonemason was till lately - God rest his noble soul! - the most impor…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Kingsley | Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays — Charles Kingsley |
Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays “We talk of our hardy forefathers; and rightly. But they were hardy, just as the savage is usually hardy, because none but the hardy lived. They may have been able to say of themsel…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Kingsley | The Roman and the Teuton — Charles Kingsley |
The Roman and the Teuton “We must remember next what the Greek Church was then; a chaos of intrigue, villainy, slander, and wild fury, tearing to pieces itself and the whole Empire by religious feuds, in wh…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Kingsley | Prose Idylls — Charles Kingsley |
Prose Idylls “I am called upon now-a-days to worship, as my better, my teacher. Shall I, the son of Odin and Thor, worship Hrymir the frost giant, and his cows the waterfalls? Shall I bow down t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Charles Kingsley | Discipline and Other Sermons — Charles Kingsley |
Discipline and Other Sermons “We hold that because we are not under the law, but under grace, there is no condemnation for sin--at least for the special sort of sin which happens to be in fashion, which is now-…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | An Accursed Race — Elizabeth Gaskell |
An Accursed Race “We are naturally shocked at discovering, from facts such as these, the causeless rancour with which innocent and industrious people were so recently persecuted. The moral of the hi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | The Last Generation in England — Elizabeth Gaskell |
The Last Generation in England “You may imagine the subjects of the conversation amongst these ladies; cards, servants, relations, pedigrees, and last and best, much mutual interest about the poor of the town, to…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | Modern Greek Songs — Elizabeth Gaskell |
Modern Greek Songs “It is rather too abrupt a turn from the deep pathos of the faithful love implied by this superstition, to a story of something of a similar kind, which fell under the observation o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | Company Manners — Elizabeth Gaskell |
Company Manners “"Away with your shy people," said the gentleman. "Persons who are self-conscious, thinking of an involuntary redness or paleness, an unbecoming movement of the countenance, more th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | Cumberland Sheep-Shearers — Elizabeth Gaskell |
Cumberland Sheep-Shearers “Still, if a family possessed a skilful shearer in the person of a son, or if the good wife could fold fleeces well and deftly, they were sure of a gay week in clipping time, passin…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | French Life — Elizabeth Gaskell |
French Life “We were quite worn out with the ever increasing noise of Paris; or, perhaps, I should rather say, as the heat became greater, so our necessity for open windows by day and by night …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | My French Master — Elizabeth Gaskell |
My French Master “His former lessons had been held in such high esteem by those who were privileged to receive them, that he was soon sought after on all sides. The schools of the two principal coun…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | An Italian Institution — Elizabeth Gaskell |
An Italian Institution “The government by this act severed itself at once and for ever from all connexion with the Camorra. Every day has widened the breach, and every day sees the powers of the state mor…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| John Galsworthy | Censorship and Art — John Galsworthy |
Censorship and Art “Having observed that there is no reason whatever for the exemption of Literature, let us now turn to the case of Art. Every picture hung in a gallery, every statue placed on a pede…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| John Galsworthy | Concerning Letters — John Galsworthy |
Concerning Letters “"Et nous jongleurs inutiles, frivoles joueurs de luth!". . . Useless jugglers, frivolous players on the lute! Must we so describe ourselves, we, the producers, season by season, of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| John Galsworthy | Inn of Tranquility and Other Essays — John Galsworthy |
Inn of Tranquility and Other Essays “"The Public?" he said, and his voice had in it a faint surprise. "Well, they all want the taxis. It's natural. They get about faster in them, and time's money. I was seven hours be…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| John Galsworthy | Quality and Other Essays — John Galsworthy |
Quality and Other Essays “Then what happens to the moon? She, who, shy and veiled, slips out before dusk to take the air of heaven, wandering timidly among the columned clouds, and fugitive from the staring…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Mary Austin | An Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist — Mary Austin |
An Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist “It was just here that the Powers seized upon Mr. Wells. The pressure of economic discontent in England, so much greater than the home-bred American can realize, the chafing of rege…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Mary Austin | Art Influence in the West — Mary Austin |
Art Influence in the West “No doubt it is in part the effect of topography. Everything, even the daily alternation of night and morning, tends to appear more dramatic in a mountain country; mile-long shadows…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Matthew Arnold | THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM AT THE PRESENT TIME — Matthew Arnold |
THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM AT THE PRESENT TIME “It is undeniable that the exercise of a creative power, that a free creative activity, is the true function of man; it is proved to be so by man's finding in it his true happiness.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Matthew Arnold | Culture and Anarchy — Matthew Arnold |
Culture and Anarchy “I ought perhaps to notice that, both here and on the other side of the Atlantic, all sorts of objections are raised against the 'religion of culture,' as the objectors mockingly ca…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Matthew Arnold | Culture and Anarchy — Matthew Arnold |
Culture and Anarchy “From a man without a philosophy no one can expect philosophical completeness. Therefore I may observe without shame, that in trying to get a distinct notion of our aristocratic, ou…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Matthew Arnold | Celtic Literature — Matthew Arnold |
Celtic Literature “Sentimental, - always ready to react against the despotism of fact; that is the description a great friend {85} of the Celt gives of him; and it is not a bad description of the sen…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | MEDICAL ESSAYS — Oliver Wendell Holmes |
MEDICAL ESSAYS “This paper was written in a great heat and with passionate indignation. If I touched it at all I might trim its rhetorical exuberance, but I prefer to leave it all its original str…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | A MORTAL ANTIPATHY — Oliver Wendell Holmes |
A MORTAL ANTIPATHY “Pray, do you remember, when there was an accession to the nursery in which you have a special interest, whether the new-comer was commonly spoken of as a baby? Was it not, on the c…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | OVER THE TEACUPS — Oliver Wendell Holmes |
OVER THE TEACUPS “I had intended to devote this particular report to an account of my replies to certain questions which have been addressed to me,-- questions which I have a right to suppose intere…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | PAGES FROM AN OLD VOLUME OF LIFE — Oliver Wendell Holmes |
PAGES FROM AN OLD VOLUME OF LIFE “In opposition to this view, there are many languid thinkers who lapse into a forlorn belief that if this or that man had never lived, or if this or that other man had not ceased to…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE — Oliver Wendell Holmes |
THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE “The Master and I had been thinking for some time of trying to get the Young Astronomer round to our side of the table. There are many subjects on which both of us like to talk with…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table — Oliver Wendell Holmes |
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table “The one that started it all.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Path of the Law — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
The Path of the Law “I take it for granted that no hearer of mine will misinterpret what I have to say as the language of cynicism. The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its hi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Our Hundred Days in Europe — Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Our Hundred Days in Europe “Now, while they are talking about America and their own local atmosphere and temperature, there comes in a second Boston Fahrenheit. The two of the same name look at each other for…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| W E B Du Bois | A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South — W E B Du Bois |
A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South “It was a hot morning late in July when the school opened. I trembled when I heard the patter of little feet down the dusty road, and saw the growing row of dark solemn faces and br…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| W E B Du Bois | Strivings of the Negro People — W E B Du Bois |
Strivings of the Negro People “The freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of lesser good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| W E B Du Bois | Of the Training of Black Men — W E B Du Bois |
Of the Training of Black Men “But when we have vaguely said Education will set this tangle straight, what have we uttered but a truism? Training for life teaches living; but what training for the profitable liv…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| W E B Du Bois | The Freedmen's Bureau — W E B Du Bois |
The Freedmen's Bureau “And daily, too, it seemed more plain that this was no ordinary matter of temporary relief, but a national crisis; for here loomed a labor problem of vast dimensions. Masses of Negr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| W E B Du Bois | The Conservation of Races — W E B Du Bois |
The Conservation of Races “Although the wonderful developments of human history teach that the grosser physical differences of color, hair and bone go but a short way toward explaining the different roles wh…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry — Walter Pater |
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry “The history of the Renaissance ends in France, and carries us away from Italy to the beautiful cities of the country of the Loire. But it was in France also, in a very important se…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Style — Walter Pater |
Style “And what applies to figure or flower must be understood of all other accidental or removable ornaments of writing whatever ; and not of specific ornament only, but of all that late…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Wordsworth — Walter Pater |
Wordsworth “It is to such a world, and to a world of congruous meditation thereon, that we see him retiring in his but lately published poem of The Recluse taking leave, without much count of …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Coleridge — Walter Pater |
Coleridge “In this late age we are become so familiarised with the greater works of art as to be little sensitive of the act of creation in them : they do not impress us as a new presence in …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Appreciations, With An Essay on Style — Walter Pater |
Appreciations, With An Essay on Style “Generally, it may be described as an attempt to reclaim the world of art as a world of fixed laws, to show that the creative activity of genius and the simplest act of thought are …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Essays From 'The Guardian' — Walter Pater |
Essays From 'The Guardian' “There is surely something of "natural magic" in that! The wilder capacity of the mountains is brought out especially in a weird story of a haunted girl, an episode well illustratin…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Greek Studies: A Series of Essays — Walter Pater |
Greek Studies: A Series of Essays “I have reserved to the last what is perhaps the daintiest treatment of this subject in classical literature, the account of it which Ovid gives in the Fasti----a kind of Roman Cale…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Imagionary Portraits — Walter Pater |
Imagionary Portraits “Almost every people, as we know, has had its legend of a "golden age" and of its return----legends which will hardly be forgotten, however prosaic the world may become, while man h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Marius the Epicurean, Vol. I — Walter Pater |
Marius the Epicurean, Vol. I “THAT almost morbid religious idealism, and his healthful love of the country, were both alike developed by the circumstances of a journey, which happened about this time, when Mari…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Marius the Epicurean, Vol. II — Walter Pater |
Marius the Epicurean, Vol. II “But supplementing these older official observances, the very wildest gods had their share of worship,--strange creatures with strange secrets startled abroad into open daylight. Th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Miscellaneous Studies — Walter Pater |
Miscellaneous Studies “Hence the splendour, the space, the novelty, of the great French cathedrals in the first Pointed style, monuments for the most part of the artistic genius of laymen, significant pr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Gaston de Latour: an Unfinished Romance — Walter Pater |
Gaston de Latour: an Unfinished Romance “Those who were curious to trace the symmetries of chance or destiny felt now quite secure in observing that, of nine French kings of the name, every third Charles had been a madman…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Plato and Platonism — Walter Pater |
Plato and Platonism “His devotion to the austere and abstract philosophy of Parmenides, its passivity or indifference, could not repress the opulent genius of Plato, or transform him into a cynic. Anot…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Aesthetic Poetry — Walter Pater |
Aesthetic Poetry “A passion of which the outlets are sealed, begets a tension of nerve, in which the sensible world comes to one with a reinforced brilliancy and relief--all redness is turned into b…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Walter Pater | Giordano Bruno — Walter Pater |
Giordano Bruno “Could one choose or reject this or that? If God the Spirit had made, nay! was, all things indifferently, then, matter and spirit, the spirit and the flesh, heaven and earth, freedo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | American Literary Centers — William Dean Howells |
American Literary Centers “However, we had really no use for an American literary centre before the Civil War, for it was only after the Civil War that we really began to have an American literature. Up to t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Some Anomalies of the Short Story — William Dean Howells |
Some Anomalies of the Short Story “Then, what is the solution as to the form of publication for short stories, since people do not object to them singly but collectively, and not in variety, but in identity of autho…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Confessions of a Summer Colonist — William Dean Howells |
Confessions of a Summer Colonist “In a certain sort fragile is written all over our colony; as far as the visible body of it is concerned it is inexpressibly perishable; a fire and a high wind could sweep it all aw…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Last Days in a Dutch Hotel — William Dean Howells |
Last Days in a Dutch Hotel “But in Europe everything is permanent, and in America everything is provisional. This is the great distinction which, if always kept in mind, will save a great deal of idle astonis…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Standard Household Effect Co. — William Dean Howells |
Standard Household Effect Co. “"Yes, it's something. But I have been thinking this matter over very seriously, and I believe it is going from bad to worse. I have heard praises of the thorough housekeeping of ou…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Spanish Prisoners of War — William Dean Howells |
Spanish Prisoners of War “Shall I say that a sense of something domestic, something homelike, imparted itself from what I had seen? Or was this more properly an effect from our visit, on the way back to the…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Stories and Essays — William Dean Howells |
Stories and Essays “The much-perverted saying of Moliere, that he took his own where he found it, is perhaps in the consciousness of those who appropriate the things other people have rushed in with b…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | The Young Contributor — William Dean Howells |
The Young Contributor “I do not believe that in my editorial service on the Atlantic Monthly, which lasted fifteen years in all, I forgot the name or the characteristic quality, or even the handwriting, …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer — William Dean Howells |
Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer “The type is mostly of a seafaring brown, a complexion which seems to be inherited rather than personally acquired; for the commerce of Kittery Point perished long ago, and the fish…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | A Belated Guest — William Dean Howells |
A Belated Guest “My recollections of Bret Harte begin with the arrest, on the Atlantic shore, of that progress of his from the Pacific Slope, which, in the simple days of 1871, was like the progres…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Literary Boston As I Knew It — William Dean Howells |
Literary Boston As I Knew It “The first time I saw Whittier was in Fields's room at the publishing office, where I had come upon some editorial errand to my chief. He introduced me to the poet: a tall, spare fi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Cambridge Neighbors — William Dean Howells |
Cambridge Neighbors “It was some years before the Boyesen summer, which was the fourth or fifth of our life in Cambridge, that I made the acquaintance of a man, very much my senior, who remains one of …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | The White Mr. Longfellow — William Dean Howells |
The White Mr. Longfellow “I once asked him if he were not a great deal interrupted, and he said, with a faint sigh, Not more than was good for him, he fancied; if it were not for the interruptions, he might…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Studies of Lowell — William Dean Howells |
Studies of Lowell “In those walks of ours I believe he did most of the talking, and from his talk then and at other times there remains to me an impression of his growing conservatism. I had in fact …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | My Mark Twain — William Dean Howells |
My Mark Twain “We had a jubilant fortnight in working the particulars of these things out. It was not possible for Clemens to write like anybody else, but I could very easily write like Clemens, …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Oliver Wendell Holmes — William Dean Howells |
Oliver Wendell Holmes “In the things of the world, he had fences, and looked at some people through palings and even over the broken bottles on the tops of walls; and I think he was the loser by this, as…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Notes of First Visit to New England — William Dean Howells |
Notes of First Visit to New England “That was the heyday of lecturing, and now and then a literary light from the East swam into our skies. I heard and saw Emerson, and I once met Bayard Taylor socially, at the hospit…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction — William Dean Howells |
A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction “In Mr. Chesnutt's novel the psychologism is of that universal implication which will distinguish itself to the observer from the psychologism of that more personal sort--the words …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Seven English Cities — William Dean Howells |
Seven English Cities “There were small shops in the Bootham, thread-and-needle stores, newspaper stores, and provision stores mainly, which I affected, and there was one united florist's and fruiterer's…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Roman Holidays and Others — W. D. Howells |
Roman Holidays and Others “My visit to the Roman Forum when the Genius Loci verified to my ignorance and the intelligence of my companions the well-conjectured site of the Temple of Jupiter Stator was not th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Dean Howells | Familiar Spanish Travels — W. D. Howells |
Familiar Spanish Travels “The haggard mountain ranges were of stone that seemed blanched with geologic superannuation, and at one place we ran by a wall of hoary rock that drew its line a mile long against …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Hazlitt | Table-Talk — William Hazlitt |
Table-Talk “We hear it maintained by people of more gravity than understanding, that genius and taste are strictly reducible to rules, and that there is a rule for everything. So far is it fro…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Hazlitt | Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion — William Hazlitt |
Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion “Not really sure where to put this one, but it kind of fits in here (sort of a drama; sort of a series of letters)…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Hazlitt | Characters of Shakespeare's Plays — William Hazlitt |
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays “The secret of Falstaff's wit is for the most part a masterly presence of mind, an absolute self-possession, which nothing can disturb. His repartees are involuntary suggestions of …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| William Hazlitt | The Spirit of the Age — William Hazlitt |
The Spirit of the Age “Even in those collateral ornaments of modern style, slovenliness, abruptness and eccentricity (as well as in terseness and significance), Lord Byron, when he pleases, defies compet…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Froude's History of England |
Froude's History of England “But it is more than unwise to boast and rejoice that the former times were worse than these; and to teach young people to say in their hearts, 'What clever fellows we are, compared…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Worldly Ways and Byways |
Worldly Ways and Byways “Philosophers tell us, that we should seek happiness only in the calm of our own minds, not allowing external conditions or the opinions of others to influence our ways. This lofty …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Essay On Machiavelli |
Essay On Machiavelli “One hypothesis is, that Machiavelli intended to practice on the young Lorenzo de' Medici a fraud similar to that which Sunderland is said to have employed against our James II, and…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | SHELLEY: AN ESSAY |
SHELLEY: AN ESSAY “Now Shelley never could have been a man, for he never was a boy. And the reason lay in the persecution which overclouded his school- days. Of that persecution's effect upon him, he…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | In Defense of Women |
In Defense of Women “Turn, for example, to the field in which the two sexes come most constantly into conflict, and in which, as a result, their habits of mind are most clearly contrasted--to the field…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Books and Bookmen |
Books and Bookmen “And in the present imperfect arrangement of life one may be a bookman and yet have very few books, since he has not the wherewithal to purchase them. It is the foolishness of his k…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE |
REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE “Is it possible I should? It appears to me as if I were in a great crisis, not of the affairs of France alone, but of all Europe, perhaps of more than Europe. All circumstances take…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Criticism and Fiction |
Criticism and Fiction “The misfortune rather than the fault of our individual critic is that he is the heir of the false theory and bad manners of the English school. The theory of that school has appare…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | My Literary Passions |
My Literary Passions “Very likely the reading of Ossian had something to do with my morbid anxieties. I had read Byron's imitation of him before that, and admired it prodigiously, and when my father got…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring |
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring “The philosophically fertile element in the original project of Siegfried's Death was the conception of Siegfried himself as a type of the healthy man raised to perfect confidence i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Style |
Style “Style, the Latin name for an iron pen, has come to designate the art that handles, with ever fresh vitality and wary alacrity, the fluid elements of speech. By a figure, obvious en…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | ON THE LIFE AND HISTORY OF THUCYDIDES |
ON THE LIFE AND HISTORY OF THUCYDIDES “For answer to this, I say thus. For the mentioning of the ancient state of Greece, he doth it briefly, insisting no longer upon it than is necessary for the well understanding of t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Days with Sir Roger de Coverley |
Days with Sir Roger de Coverley “A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirel…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Letters to Dead Authors |
Letters to Dead Authors “In what bower, oh Lucian, of your rediscovered Islands Fortunate are you now reclining; the delight of the fair, the learned, the witty, and the brave? In that clear and tranquil c…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | American Spirit in Literature |
American Spirit in Literature “The simplest and oldest group of colonial writings is made up of records of exploration and adventure. They are like the letters written from California in 1849 to the "folks back …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | UNTO THIS LAST |
UNTO THIS LAST “Pardon me. Men of business do indeed know how they themselves made their money, or how, on occasion, they lost it. Playing a long-practised game, they are familiar with the chances…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Essays on Life, Art and Science |
Essays on Life, Art and Science “The question, therefore, on which I have undertaken to address you is, as you must all know, fatuous, if it be faced seriously. Life is like playing a violin solo in public and lea…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Sesame and Lilies |
Sesame and Lilies “And least of all, whatever may have been the eagerness of our passions, or the height of our pride, are we able to understand in its depth the third and most solemn character in wh…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Essays and Tales |
Essays and Tales “Nothing is so much admired, and so little understood, as wit. No author that I know of has written professedly upon it. As for those who make any mention of it, they only treat on …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers |
Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers “You can always tell when a man has reached the limit of his possible development. He ceases to be discontented--or at least to show discontent actively. --by Arthur Brisbane…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Ponkapog Papers |
Ponkapog Papers “In spite of Herrick's disparagement of Dean- bourn, which he calls "a rude river," and his characterization of Devon folk as "a peo- ple currish, churlish as the seas," the fullest…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac |
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac “Never, however, have I wholly ceased to regret the loss of the Elzevir, for an Elzevir is to me one of the most gladdening sights human eye can rest upon. In his life of the elder …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Canterbury Pieces |
Canterbury Pieces “Now, however sceptical I may yet feel about the truth of all Darwin's theory, I cannot sit quietly by and see him misrepresented in such a scandalously slovenly manner. What Darwin…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | A Defence of Poetry: An Essay |
A Defence of Poetry: An Essay “Poetry turns all things to loveliness; it exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful, and it adds beauty to that which is most deformed; it marries exultation and horror, gr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Essays Before a Sonata |
Essays Before a Sonata “The substance of Hawthorne is so dripping wet with the supernatural, the phantasmal, the mystical--so surcharged with adventures, from the deeper picturesque to the illusive fantas…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Concerning Cheapness — Charles Carroll |
Concerning Cheapness “"And that brings me to another view of the matter. Beyond mere evident and momentary use, there are a multitude of more subtle considerations which often constitute the main value …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Literary Chat — Anonymous |
Literary Chat “Some writers have told us a part of the process by which their stories came into existence. Miss Wilkins and Dr. Conan Doyle select their climax first and then lead up to it. But t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Have We Failed with the Indian? — H. L. Dawes |
Have We Failed with the Indian? “The aggregate of all sums appropriated for this purpose since the first $20,000 in 1877 amounts to $29,352,344. Previous Indian policies had been shifting and ephemeral enough to p…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers — Winifred Margaretta Kirkland |
The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers “It is for man's reassurance that I shall endeavor gradually to unfold this age-old purpose, showing that while the privileges which through slow evolution we have amassed are so en…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Negro Suffrage in a Democracy — Ray Stannard Baker |
Negro Suffrage in a Democracy “Our own government is one of the freest in the world in the matter of suffrage; and yet we bar out, in most states, all women; we bar out Mongolians, no matter how intelligent; we …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Heart of the Race Problem — Quincy Ewing |
The Heart of the Race Problem “But, strange as it may sound, the writer has no hesitation in saying that at this date there appears to be no clear conception anywhere, on the part of most people, as to just what…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Imperishable Fiction — Richard Le Gallienne |
Imperishable Fiction “Subtitled: Imperishable Fiction: An Inquiry into the Short Life of the 'Best Sellers' Reveals the Methods Which Brought into Being the Novels that Endure…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | CRITICISM — Edgar Allan Poe |
CRITICISM “But there is another point of which we disapprove. While in our reviews we have at all times been particularly careful not to deal in generalities, and have never, if we remember a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Women and Public Housekeeping — Jane Addams |
Women and Public Housekeeping “The very multifariousness and complexity of a city government demand the help of minds accustomed to detail and variety of work, to a sense of obligation for the health and welfare…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Pugnacious Style — Percy F. Bicknell |
The Pugnacious Style “A long-recognized master of the pugnaciously vituperative style, and one whom it is an unending delight to read, even though the reader be wise enough not to yield entire assent to…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Recent Writings By American Indians — Elisabeth Luther Cary |
Recent Writings By American Indians “An interesting pendant to his "Recollections of the Wild Life" is a little book, published a couple of years ago by Francis La Flesche, son of the former head chief of the Omaha tr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | "St. Elmo" and its Author — Anonymous |
"St. Elmo" and its Author “One cannot spend much time at the task of reviewing the current books of the day without occasionally feeling a twinge of envy when thinking of the opportunities of the reviewers o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Woman's Progress — Mary K. Ford |
Woman's Progress “Subtitled: A Comparison of Centuries…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Woman's Future Position in the World — Lizzie Holmes |
Woman's Future Position in the World “It was no longer profitable to make these things in the seclusion of the home; and women followed the machines and went in great crowds to the factories. The demand for women's wor…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Artistic Side of Chicago — Elia Wilkinson Peattie |
The Artistic Side of Chicago “He who comes to Chicago to seek his fortune, possessing delicate traditions, having been brought up among persons of similar traditions, is confused and angered by the treatment he…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Hour and the Woman — Annie Muzzey |
The Hour and the Woman “The primal evil which Mrs. Stetson points out in our social life, is the economic dependence of woman on the sex-relation. From this false and unnatural position, sanctioned by hum…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Literary Workers of the South — Anna Leach |
Literary Workers of the South “It is the men and women who inherited this talent, along with the old letters, who are telling their stories today. The war brought changed conditions to the South, and made it nec…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Hopes and Fears for Art — William Morris |
Hopes and Fears for Art “For your teachers, they must be Nature and History: as for the first, that you must learn of it is so obvious that I need not dwell upon that now: hereafter, when I have to speak m…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Vice of Reading — Edith Wharton |
The Vice of Reading “Reading deliberately undertaken -- what may be called volitional reading -- is no more reading than erudition is culture. Real reading is reflex action; the born reader reads as un…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Interdependence of Literature — Georgina Pell Curtis |
The Interdependence of Literature “The traditions of all nations go back to an age of heroes. Nature, also, has had her time of stupendous greatness, a period of great revolutions in nature, of which we can see trac…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Heretics — G. K. Chesterton |
Heretics “A new morality has burst upon us with some violence in connection with the problem of strong drink; and enthusiasts in the matter range from the man who is violently thrown out at …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Letters on Literature — Andrew Lang |
Letters on Literature “Dear Gifted,--If you will permit me to use your Christian, and prophetic, name--we improved the occasion lately with the writers of light verse in ancient times. We decided that th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Charles Dickens: A Critical Study — George Gissing |
Charles Dickens: A Critical Study “One thing to be learnt from every page of the biography is the strenuous spirit in which Dickens wrought. Whatever our judgment as to the result, his zeal and energy were those of …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Immortal Dickens — George Gissing |
The Immortal Dickens “What one misses most of all, perhaps, in Barnaby Rudge is a note of high spirits. It is altogether a less vivacious book (Sim Tappertit notwithstanding) than the others of Dickens'…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson — Edouard le Roy |
A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson “Certain characteristics of Mr Bergson's manner will be remarked throughout: his provisional effort of forgetfulness to recreate a new and untrammelled mind; his mixture of positive…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | George Cruikshank — William Makepeace Thackeray |
George Cruikshank “There must be no smiling with Cruikshank. A man who does not laugh outright is a dullard, and has no heart; even the old dandy of sixty must have laughed at his own wondrous grotes…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character — William Makepeace Thackeray |
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character “There is no blinking the fact that in Mr. Punch's cabinet John Leech is the right-hand man. Fancy a number of Punch without Leech's pictures! What would you give for it? The learne…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | PEN, PENCIL AND POISON: A Study in Green — Oscar Wilde |
PEN, PENCIL AND POISON: A Study in Green “Some dark antique bronzes contrast "with the pale gleam of two noble Christi Crucifixi, one carved in ivory, the other moulded in wax." He has his trays of Tassie's gems, his tiny …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | THE REDISCOVERY OF THE UNIQUE — H.G. Wells |
THE REDISCOVERY OF THE UNIQUE “It is extremely interesting to trace the genesis of this human delusion of number. It has grown with the growth of the mind, and is, we are quite prepared to concede, a necessary f…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Future of the Colored Race in America — William Aikman |
The Future of the Colored Race in America “No man understood this so well or so soon as the great Nullifier. He was a thinker and a philosopher, and so with great logical consistency he became the early author of the doctri…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | ESSAYS ON THE POETS, AND OTHER ENGLISH WRITERS — THOMAS DE QUINCEY |
ESSAYS ON THE POETS, AND OTHER ENGLISH WRITERS “But it is as a novelist, not as a political theorist, that Mr. Gilfillan values Godwin; and specially for his novel of Caleb Williams. Now, if this were the eccentric judgment of o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | RHETORIC and STYLE — THOMAS DE QUINCEY |
RHETORIC and STYLE “Many years ago, when studying the Aristotelian rhetoric at Oxford, it struck us that, by whatever name Aristotle might describe the main purpose of rhetoric, practically, at least,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Preface to Shakespeare's Plays — Samuel Johnson |
Preface to Shakespeare's Plays “What mankind have long possessed they have often examined and compared, and if they persist to va- lue the possession, it is because frequent comparisons have confirmed opinion in …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays — Sydney Smith |
Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays “If my voice could have been heard at the late changes, I should have said, "Gently, patience, stop a little; the time is not yet come; the mud of Poland will harden, and the bowels…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Froudacity: West Indian Fables — J. J. Thomas |
Froudacity: West Indian Fables “Written by Thomas in response to J.A. Froude's The Bow of Ulysses. (Note, Froude had very little in the way of fans.)…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | A Hero: Jean Valjean — William A. Quayle |
A Hero: Jean Valjean “``The Heptameron,'' of Margaret of Navarre, is a book so filthy as to be nauseating. That people could read it from inclination is unthinkable; and to believe that a woman could re…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Orthodoxy — G. K. Chesterton |
Orthodoxy “The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonabl…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | A NEW CRIME — Mark Twain |
A NEW CRIME “Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently ex- pects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? A…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | ON MURDER — THOMAS DE QUINCEY |
ON MURDER “Full Title: ON MURDER, CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS, AND OTHER RELATED TEXTS…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | SEVEN DISCOURSES ON ART — JOSHUA REYNOLDS |
SEVEN DISCOURSES ON ART “When the artist is once enabled to express himself with some degree of correctness, he must then endeavour to collect subjects for expression; to amass a stock of ideas, to be comb…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Ex Voto — Samuel Butler |
Ex Voto “The difficulty referred to at the close of the last chapter is the same as that which those who rarely go to a theatre have to get over before they can appreciate an actor. They go…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy — Andrew Lang |
Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy “As to the character of Sir Walter Scott, I have proved, I hope, that he worked on a copy of the ballad which was not the Elliot version, or the Sharpe copy; so that this copy may h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Chaucer — Adolphus William Ward |
Chaucer “But, in accordance with the taste of his age, which shunned such sheer straightforwardness in poetry, the "Book of the Duchess" contains no further transparent reference to the act…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Colloquies on Society — Robert Southey |
Colloquies on Society “Sir Thomas More.--The same in kind, but greater in degree; or at least if not greater, or so general in extent, it was more directly felt. When that ruinous fashion prevailed in yo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres — Henry Adams |
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres “A charming arcade at the top has the air of being thrown across in order to disguise the alteration, and perhaps owes much of its charm to the contrast it makes with the severity o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | At Large — Arthur Christopher Benson |
At Large “What no doubt heightened the pleasure for me was that I had been passing through a somewhat dreary period. Things had been going wrong, had tied themselves into knots. Several peop…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | From a College Window — Arthur Christopher Benson |
From a College Window “I have a theory that one ought to grow older in a tranquil and appropriate way, that one ought to be perfectly contented with one's time of life, that amusements and pursuits ought…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Off-Hand Sketches — T.S. Arthur |
Off-Hand Sketches “SUMMER before last, the time when cholera had poisoned the air, a gentleman of wealth, standing and intelligence, from one of the Southern or Middle States, while temporarily sojou…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Escape and Other Essays — Arthur Christopher Benson |
Escape and Other Essays “I was brought up much among books and talk about books. Indeed, I have always believed that my father, though he had great practical gifts of organisation and administration, which…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Upton Letters — Arthur Christopher Benson |
The Upton Letters “I feel, on closing the book, a great admiration for the man, mingled with infinite pity for the miseries which his own temperament inflicted on him; it gives me, too, a high intell…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear — Arthur Christopher Benson |
Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear “There is a tendency, I am sure, in books, to shirk the whole subject of fear, as though it were a thing disgraceful, shameful, almost unmentionable. The coward, the timid person, r…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Lives of the Poets: (Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, Etc.) — Samuel Johnson |
Lives of the Poets: (Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, Etc.) “Gay is represented as a man easily incited to hope, and deeply depressed when his hopes were disappointed. This is not the character of a hero, but it may naturally imply something…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, etc. — Samuel Johnson |
Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, etc. “Under such a tutor, Mr. Savage was not likely to learn prudence or frugality; and perhaps many of the misfortunes which the want of those virtues brought upon him in the following …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Notes to The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Mary W. Shelley |
Notes to The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley “Shelley possessed two remarkable qualities of intellect--a brilliant imagination, and a logical exactness of reason. His inclinations led him (he fancied) almost alike to poetry an…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Ethics of the Dust — John Ruskin |
The Ethics of the Dust “L. I cannot tell you a great deal about it; only I know it is very different from Sindbad's. In his valley, there was only a diamond lying here and there; but, in the real valley, …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Fisherman's Luck — Henry van Dyke |
Fisherman's Luck “There is good browsing among the leaves of the wood and the grasses of the meadow, as every well-instructed angler knows. The bright emerald tips that break from the hemlock and th…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Revolution and Other Essays — Jack London |
Revolution and Other Essays “No sooner, however, had Alaska become American soil than thousands of our adventurers were afoot and afloat for the north. They were the men of "the days of gold," the men of Calif…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Female Suffrage — Susan Fenimore Cooper |
Female Suffrage “An adventurous party among us, weary of the old paths, is now eagerly proclaiming theories and doctrines entirely novel on this important subject. The EMANCIPATION OF WOMAN is the …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Soul of Man Under Socialism — Oscar Wilde |
The Soul of Man Under Socialism “Under Socialism all this will, of course, be altered. There will be no people living in fetid dens and fetid rags, and bringing up unhealthy, hungerpinched children in the midst of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Woman and Labour — Olive Schreiner |
Woman and Labour “Were today a band of civilised men, women, and infants thrown down absolutely naked and defenceless in some desert, and cut off hopelessly from all external civilised life, undoubt…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Luck or Cunning? — Samuel Butler |
Luck or Cunning? “In brief, there is nothing in life of which there are not germs, and, so to speak, harmonics in death, and nothing in death of which germs and harmonics may not be found in life. E…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors — George Bernard Shaw |
The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors “In the first frenzy of microbe killing, surgical instruments were dipped in carbolic oil, which was a great improvement on not dipping them in anything at all and simply using them…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | On Being Human — Woodrow Wilson |
On Being Human “Luckily we are not the first human beings. We have come into a great heritage of interesting things, collected and piled all about us by the curiousity of past generations. And so …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | When a Man Comes to Himself — Woodrow Wilson |
When a Man Comes to Himself “It is enough to know that there are some laws which govern a man's awakening to know himself and the right part to play. A man is the part he plays among his fellows. He is not iso…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Lay Morals — Robert Louis Stevenson |
Lay Morals “It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilisation--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. Its pregnant symbolism has taken…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope — Samuel Johnson |
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope “"How," says the critic, "can wit be scorned where it is not? Is not this a figure frequently employed in Hibernian land! The person that wants this wit may indeed be scorned, but t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown — Andrew Lang |
Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown “A phrase has been used to explain the Greek element in Shakespeare's work, namely, "congruity of genius," which is apt to be resented by Baconians. Perhaps they have a right to res…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Instead of an Article — Brand Whitlock |
Instead of an Article “Full title: Instead of an Article: About Pittsburg and, Incidentally, about Editing a Magazine…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope — Lord Bolingbroke |
Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope “You have begun your ethic epistles in a masterly manner. You have copied no other writer, nor will you, I think, be copied by any one. It is with genius as it is with beauty; there…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Brann The Iconoclast, Volume 1 |
Brann The Iconoclast, Volume 1 “Sexually considered, civilized man is more beastial than the brutes. He does not respect the person of his gestant wife, and this disregard of natural law is the most potent failur…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Brann The Iconoclast, Volume 10 |
Brann The Iconoclast, Volume 10 “I sometimes rejoice with an exceeding great joy and take something on myself that the ICONOCLAST is read by a million truth-loving Americans, as I am thereby enabled not only to ma…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Brann The Iconoclast, Volume 12 |
Brann The Iconoclast, Volume 12 “At this writing, 9 o'clock, W. C. Brann, editor of Brann's ICONOCLAST, and Tom E. Davis, a prominent real estate man of this city, lie dangerously wounded with a likelihood of thei…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Limbo and other Essays — Vernon Lee |
Limbo and other Essays “The moon, particularly, is continually en scène, as if to take the place of the fireflies, which last only so long as the corn is in the ear, gradually getting extinguished and tra…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Gospels of Anarchy and Other Contemporary Studies — Vernon Lee |
Gospels of Anarchy and Other Contemporary Studies “Nor is moderation the remedy for all evils. There are in us tendencies to feel and act which survive from times when the mere preservation of individual and of race was desirable q…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Modern Marriage Market — Marie Corelli |
The Modern Marriage Market “It is impossible, in the complex life of our time, that there should not be a large and powerful element in society whose influence is not altogether for good. The great wealth and…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted With Darwin's — Mathilde Blind |
Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted With Darwin's “But is it true that all things in Nature, where man is not, speak "peace, harmony, and love"? Why, if we open our Darwin, the very opposite fact meets us at every turn. Yes, in the…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Book of Dreams and Ghosts — Andrew Lang |
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts “"The duchess said, 'What earl?' and on my answering 'Lord L----,' she replied: 'That is very odd. I have had a most extraordinary vision. I went to bed, but after being in bed a sh…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | A Woman's Thoughts About Women — Dinah Maria Craik |
A Woman's Thoughts About Women “ONE of the wisest and best among our English ethical writers, the author of Companions of my Solitude, says, àpropos of gossip, that one half of the evil-speaking of the world aris…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Birds and Poets — John Burroughs |
Birds and Poets “The cow figures in Grecian mythology, and in the Oriental literature is treated as a sacred animal. "The clouds are cows and the rain milk." I remember what Herodotus says of the E…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors — Frances Power Cobbe |
Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors “Full title: CRIMINALS, IDIOTS, WOMEN, AND MINORS. IS THE CLASSIFICATION SOUND? A DISCUSSION ON THE LAWS CONCERNING THE PROPERTY OF MARRIED WOMEN.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Through the Magic Door — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Through the Magic Door “It must be admitted that, looking back upon history, we have not always been good allies, nor yet generous co-partners in the battlefield. The first is the fault of our politics, w…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Defense of Harriet Shelley — Mark Twain |
Defense of Harriet Shelley “There is an insistent atmosphere of candor and fairness about this book which is engaging at first, then a little burdensome, then a trifle fatiguing, then progressively suspicious…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Exploration — H.M. Tomlinson |
Exploration “There must be categories for books, yet I do not think Books of Travel is precisely the place in the index for the Arabia Deserta , or Thoreau's Week on the Concord, or even for Ba…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Darwiniana — Asa Gray |
Darwiniana “Full title: Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism. Electronic formatting dedicated, as always, to the Kansas State Board of Education.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Pagan Papers — Kenneth Grahame |
Pagan Papers “Moments there are, it is true, when this traitor spirit tricks you: when some subtle scent, some broken notes of an old song, nay, even some touch of a fresher air on your cheeks a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | On The American Contribution — Winston Churchill |
On The American Contribution “In America we succeeded in eliminating hereditary power, in obtaining a large measure of political liberty, only to see the rise of an economic power, and the consequent loss of ec…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | One January Morning — H.M. Tomlinson |
One January Morning “We find it difficult to admit that a poet's thought may be beautiful because of its contrast with the darkness of our customary ways, for that would mean that beauty convicted us. …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays — Percy Bysshe Shelley |
A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays “But poets, or those who imagine and express this indestructible order, are not only the authors of language and of music, of the dance, and architecture, and statuary, and painting…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language — Samuel Johnson |
Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language “Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries; whom mankind have considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pionier of literature, doomed only to remov…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Time and Change |
Time and Change “If life is a ferment, as we are told it is, how long it took this yeast to leaven the whole loaf! Man is evidently the end of the series, he is the top of the biological tree. His …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | THE EVERLASTING MAN — G.K. Chesterton |
THE EVERLASTING MAN “Men are moved in these things by something far higher and holier than policy; by hatred. When men hung on in the darkest days of the Great War, suffering either in their bodies or …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Politics and the English Language — George Orwell |
Politics and the English Language “A newly invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image, while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically "dead" (e.g., iron resolution) has in effect reverted t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Angling Sketches — Andrew Lang |
Angling Sketches “There is something mysterious in loch-fishing, in the tastes and habits of the fish which inhabit the innumerable lakes and tarns of Scotland. It is not always easy to account eith…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Art and Socialism — William Morris |
Art and Socialism “The reverse; no less than that. For first, The work must be worth doing: think what a change that would make in the world! I tell you I feel dazed at the thought of the immensity o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Common-Sense Country — Louisa Sarah Bevington |
Common-Sense Country “You never saw any feet without shoes in cold weather in Common-sense Country. And you never saw any shoes heaped up thousands thick in warehouses with no feet to put into them. Com…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry — John Dryden |
Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry “An heroic poem (truly such) is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of man is capable to perform. The design of it is to form the mind to heroic virtue by example; it is co…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Essays on Life, Art and Science — Samuel Butler |
Essays on Life, Art and Science “The first chapel to the left on entering the church is that of the Birth of the Virgin. St. Anne is sitting up in bed. She is not at all ill--in fact, considering that the Virgin h…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | How to Fail in Literature — Andrew Lang |
How to Fail in Literature “But when we look round on the vast multitude of writers who, to all seeming, deliberately aim at failure, who take every precaution in favour of failure that untutored inexperience…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Little Travels and Roadside Sketches — William Makepeace Thackeray |
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches “One begins to grow sick of these churches, and the hideous exhibitions of bodily agonies that are depicted on the sides of all the chapels. Into one wherein we went this morning wa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners — Jane Taylor |
Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners “At last the tea came up, and so,/ With that, our tongues began to go./ Now, in that house, you're sure of knowing/ The smallest scrap of news that's going;/ We find it there the wi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Old Friends — Andrew Lang |
Old Friends “I have nussed a many lunacies, Betsy, and in a general way am dispoged to humour them rather than set them right up agin the fire when fractious. But this Pecksniff is the tryinges…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Essays and Lectures — Oscar Wilde |
Essays and Lectures “Now, while undoubtedly in these passages we may recognise the first anticipation of many of the most modern principles of research, we must remember how essentially limited is the …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Thoughts on Present Discontents — Edmund Burke |
Thoughts on Present Discontents “It is always to be lamented when men are driven to search into the foundations of the commonwealth. It is certainly necessary to resort to the theory of your government whenever yo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Last Day of Windsor Forest — Thomas Love Peacock |
The Last Day of Windsor Forest “A still more solitary spot, which had especial charms for me, was the deep forest dell already mentioned, on the borders of Winkfield Plain. This dell, I think, had the name of the…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Yet Again — Max Beerbohm |
Yet Again “Yet, I know, many worthy folk would like the book blotted out of existence. These are they who understand and love the art of painting, but neither love nor understand writing as a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Aphorisms and Reflections — Henrietta A. Huxley |
Aphorisms and Reflections “In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Works of Samuel Johnson, V4 |
The Works of Samuel Johnson, V4 “Containing essays from The Rambler and The Adventurer…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | In a Walled Garden — Bessie Rayner Belloc |
In a Walled Garden “My younger public, having read the foregoing pages, assure me that I have not given a sufficient description of George Eliot herself. One of them even says, "You have opened a door…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Utopia of Usurers and other Essays — G.K. Chesterton |
Utopia of Usurers and other Essays “Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain an…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Prejudices: first series — H.L. Mencken |
Prejudices: first series “Since then the decline of Wells has been as steady as his rise was rapid. Call the roll of his books, and you will discern a progressive and unmistakable falling off. Into "The Pas…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Ways of Men — Eliot Gregory |
The Ways of Men “Improved text, supersedes earlier version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Not that it Matters — A. A. Milne |
Not that it Matters “The simple truth, and everybody knows it really, is that collars squeak for some people and not for others. A squeaky collar round the neck of a man is a comment, not upon the coll…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot — Andrew Lang |
The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot “Improved text, supersedes eariler version.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Riches of Bunyan — Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin |
The Riches of Bunyan “Oh, when every providence of God unto thee is like the messengers of Job, and the last to bring more heavy tidings than all that went before him; when life, estate, wife, children,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Philosophy of Style — Herbert Spencer |
The Philosophy of Style “Keeping in mind these general truths, we shall be in a condition to understand certain causes of effect in composition now to be considered. Every perception received, and every co…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Beethoven — Richard Wagner |
Beethoven “This cry is answered in the most positive manner by Music. Here the world outside us speaks to us in terms intelligible beyond compare, since its sounding message to our ear is of …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Wibelungen — Richard Wagner |
The Wibelungen “The World-ruler recognised from whence his deepest wound had come, and who it was that cried his world-plan final halt. It was the spirit of free Manhood loosed from the nature-soi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Introduction to Robert Browning — Hiram Corson |
Introduction to Robert Browning “We two stood there with never a third,/ But each by each, as each knew well:/ The sights we saw and the sounds we heard,/ The lights and the shades made up a spell/ Till the troubl…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Evolution of Expression Vol. I — Charles Wesley Emerson |
The Evolution of Expression Vol. I “Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,/ And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side;/ But in his duty prompt at every call,/ He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all;…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Cowley's Essays |
Cowley's Essays “Since we cannot attain to greatness, says the Sieur de Montaigne, let us have our revenge by railing at it; this he spoke but in jest. I believe he desired it no more than I do, an…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Essays On Russian Novelists — William Lyon Phelps |
Essays On Russian Novelists “Dostoevski had a tremendous capacity for enthusiasm. As a boy, he was terribly shaken by the death of Pushkin, and he never lost his admiration for the founder of Russian literatur…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Sir Roger de Coverly Essays from The Spectator — Addison and Steele |
Sir Roger de Coverly Essays from The Spectator “There is no kind of exercise which I would so recommend to my readers of both sexes as this of riding, as there is none which so much conduces to health, and is every way accommoda…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Definitions — Henry Seidel Canby |
Definitions “If you ask readers why they like Conrad, two out of three will answer, because he is a great stylist, or because he writes of the sea. I doubt the worth of such answers. Many buy b…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Theological Essays and Other Papers v1 — Thomas de Quincey |
Theological Essays and Other Papers v1 “Now these distinctions are important to the whole extent of the question. For the 2d case, which is the actual case of many miracles recorded in the New Testament, at once cuts awa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Nature and Human Nature — Thomas Chandler Haliburton |
Nature and Human Nature “I shall never forget when I was up to Michelimackinic. A thunderin' long word, ain't it? We call it Mackinic now for shortness. But perhaps you wouldn't understand it spelt that wa…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. I. — Thomas De Quincey |
Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. I. “Oh! verdure of human fields, cottages of men and women, (that now suddenly seemed all brothers and sisters,) cottages with children around them at play, that are so far below--oh! …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. II. — Thomas De Quincey |
Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. II. “Heavy, indeed, are the arrears still due to philosophic curiosity on the real merits, and on the separate merits, of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge as a poet--Coleridge as a ph…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Life and Habit — Samuel Butler |
Life and Habit “If such remarks as the above hold good at all, they do so with the words "personal identity." The least reflection will show that personal identity in any sort of strictness is an …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Essays On Work And Culture — Hamilton Wright Mabie |
Essays On Work And Culture “In the days when Wilhelm Meister was written, the Wanderjahr or year of travel was a recognised part of student life, and was held in high regard as contributing a valuable element…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Life of the Fields — Richard Jefferies |
The Life of the Fields “The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone, and the bare branches silently speak of a new year, slowly advancing to its buds, its foliage, and fruit. Dec…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Memorials and Other Papers V1 — Thomas de Quincey |
Memorials and Other Papers V1 “The books now existing upon the ancient oracles, above all, upon the Greek oracles, amount to a small library. The facts have been collected from all quarters,--examined, sifted, w…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Memorials and Other Papers V2 — Thomas de Quincey |
Memorials and Other Papers V2 “One only feature there is in the story, and this belongs to its second stage (which is also its sublimest stage), where a pure taste is likely to pause, and to revolt as from somet…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Note-Books of Samuel Butler — Samuel Butler |
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler “The whole life of some people is a kind of partial death--a long, lingering death-bed, so to speak, of stagnation and nonentity on which death is but the seal, or solemn signing, a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Without Prejudice — Israel Zangwill |
Without Prejudice “NOTE This book is a selection, slightly revised, from my miscellaneous work during the last four or five years, and the title is that under which the bulk of it has appeared, month…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | English Literary Criticism — Various |
English Literary Criticism “I find I have anticipated already, and taken up from Boccace before I come to him; but there is so much less behind; and I am of the temper of most kings, who love to be in debt, a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc — Thomas de Quincey |
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc “What is to be thought of her? What is to be thought of the poor shepherd girl from the hills and forests of Lorraine, that--like the Hebrew shepherd boy from the hills and forests …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Principles Of Aesthetics — Dewitt H. Parker |
The Principles Of Aesthetics “In our discussion of first principles, we set down a high degree of unity as one of the distinguishing characteristics of works of art. In this we followed close upon ancient tradi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Unto This Last — John Ruskin |
Unto This Last “This "robbing the poor because he is poor," is especially the mercantile form of theft, consisting in talking advantage of a man's necessities in order to obtain his labour or prop…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | More Pages from a Journal — Mark Rutherford |
More Pages from a Journal “A certain degree of ignorance is necessary for a summary essay on creatures of this order. The expression of Dorothy's soul is spread over large surfaces. Some people require much …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | History of American Literature — Reuben Post Halleck |
History of American Literature “The transcendentalist, while voicing his ecstasy over life, has put himself on record as not wishing to do anything more than once. For him God has enough new experiences, so that …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Potiphar Papers — George William Curtis |
The Potiphar Papers “We might reply that it is necessary to know something of a subject before writing about it, and that if a man wished to describe the habits of South Sea Islanders, it is useless to…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Letters from America — Rupert Brooke |
Letters from America “Yet Boston is alive. It sits, in comfortable middle-age, on the ruins of its glory. But it is not buried beneath them. It used to lead America in Literature, Thought, Art, everythi…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Coverley Papers — Various |
The Coverley Papers “When I hear the relations that are made from all parts of the world, not only from Norway and Lapland, from the East and West Indies, but from every particular nation in Europe, I …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Biographical Essays — Thomas de Quincey |
Biographical Essays “There is in modern literature a whole class of writers, though not a large one, standing within the same category; some marked originality of character in the writer become a coeff…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Unconscious Memory — Samuel Butler |
Unconscious Memory “Professor Hering's philosophy of the unconscious is of extreme simplicity. He rests upon a fact of daily and hourly experience, namely, that practice makes things easy that were on…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Winter Sunshine — John Burroughs |
Winter Sunshine “Cold as the day was (many degrees below freezing), I heard and saw bluebirds, and as we passed along, every sheltered tangle and overgrown field or lane swarmed with snowbirds and …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Nonsenseorship — G. G. Putnam |
Nonsenseorship “I hope they're satisfied./ They can prove that the Johnstown flood,/ And the blizzard of 1888,/ And the destruction of Pompeii/ Were all due to alcohol./ They have it figured out/ …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Theological Essays and Other Papers v2 — Thomas de Quincey |
Theological Essays and Other Papers v2 “Turn to Bonaparte. It was a saying of his sycophants, that he sometimes spoke like a god, and sometimes worse than the feeblest of mortals. But, says one who knew him well,--the mo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets of Bengal — John Beames |
Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets of Bengal “So must also Vaish.navism differ from true religion, the flesh from the spirit, the impure from the pure. The singing of hymns about Radha and K.rish.na is much older than Chaitany…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Old Roman World — John Lord |
The Old Roman World “Whatever may be said of the inferiority of the ancients to the moderns in natural and mechanical science, which no one is disposed to question, or even in the realm of literature, …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Sadhana — Rabindranath Tagore |
Sadhana “But at the other pole of my being I am separate from all. There I have broken through the cordon of equality and stand alone as an individual. I am absolutely unique, I am I, I am …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | AN ESSAY ON CONVERSATION — Henry Fielding |
AN ESSAY ON CONVERSATION “But it is not sufficient to be inoffensive--we must be profitable servants to each other: we are, in the second place, to proceed to the utmost verge in paying the respect due to o…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | From THE COVENT-GARDEN JOURNAL — Henry Fielding |
From THE COVENT-GARDEN JOURNAL “I shall probably, therefore, in a future paper, endeavour to lay down some rules by which all men may acquire at least some degree of taste. In the meanwhile, I shall (according to…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | THE TRUE PATRIOT — Henry Fielding |
THE TRUE PATRIOT “This stripling, this bowe, this rake, discovered likewise all the wickedness peculiar to age, and that he had not, with those vices which proceed from the warmth of youth, one of t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater — Thomas de Quincey |
The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater “Note: Actually, I believe the title was just used to sell books. Criticism by de Quincey.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Who Wrote the Bible? — Washington Gladden |
Who Wrote the Bible? “These last sentences of Canon Farrar give the probable clew to the interpretation of the book. It is a dramatic poem, celebrating the story of a beautiful peasant girl, a native of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Open Air — Richard Jefferies |
The Open Air “Considering in this way, I wandered about fifty yards along the pier, and sat down in an abstracted way on the seat on the right side. Beneath, the clear green sea rolled in crestl…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | HOMER AND HIS AGE — ANDREW LANG |
HOMER AND HIS AGE “Iron, we repeat, is in the poems a perfectly familiar metal. Ownership of "bronze, gold, and iron, which requires much labour" (in the smithying or smelting), appears regularly in …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Pages from a Journal with Other Papers — Mark Rutherford |
Pages from a Journal with Other Papers “Faith is nobly seen when a man, standing like Columbus upon the shore with a dark, stormy Atlantic before him, resolves to sail, and although week after week no land be visible, st…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Literary Taste |
Literary Taste “The large majority of our fellow-citizens care as much about literature as they care about aeroplanes or the programme of the Legislature. They do not ignore it; they are not quite…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | A Miscellany of Men — G. K. Chesterton |
A Miscellany of Men “There are many reasons for becoming a soldier. It may be a matter of hereditary luck or abject hunger or heroic virtue or fugitive vice; it may be an interest in the work or a lack…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature — August Wilhelm Schlegel, trans: John Black |
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature “Of the Old Comedy but one writer has come down to us, and we cannot, therefore, in forming an estimate of his merits, enforce it by a comparison with other masters. Aristophanes ha…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Fra Bartolommeo — Leader Scott |
Fra Bartolommeo “Mariotto imbibed more and more of Baccio's style, till their works so much resembled one another that indifferent judges could scarcely distinguish them apart. It would be interest…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | A History of English Literature — Robert Huntington Fletcher |
A History of English Literature “JONATHAN SWIFT. Jonathan Swift, another unique figure of very mixed traits, is like Defoe in that he connects the reign of William III with that of his successors and that, in acco…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Cambridge Sketches — Frank Preston Stearns |
Cambridge Sketches “Doctor Holmes graduated at Harvard in 1829 at the age of twenty. His class has been a celebrated one in Boston, and there were certainly some good men in it,--especially Benjamin P…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 — Edwin Lawrence Godkin |
Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 “Mr. Froude's attempt to secure from the American public a favorable judgment on the dealings of England with Ireland has had one good result--though we fear only one--in leading to…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry — T.S. Eliot |
Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry “As the chief poems in "A Lume Spento" were afterwards incorporated in "Personae," the book demands mention only as a date in the author's history. "Personae," the first book publis…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Mornings in Florence — John Ruskin |
Mornings in Florence “There is, indeed, within the opposite cloister, an arch of entrance, plain enough. But no chapel, whatever, externally manifesting itself as worth entering. No walls, or gable, or …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Poets of the South — F.V.N. Painter |
Poets of the South “Poe occupies a peculiar place in American literature. He has been called our most interesting literary man. He stands alone for his intellectual brilliancy and his lamentable failu…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Science &Education — Thomas H. Huxley |
Science &Education “To this, his highest ideal of duty, Joseph Priestley sacrificed the vulgar prizes of life, which, assuredly, were within easy reach of a man of his singular energy and varied abili…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Two Paths — John Ruskin |
The Two Paths “Portable art--independent of all place--is for the most part ignoble art. Your little Dutch landscape, which you put over your sideboard to-day, and between the windows tomorrow, i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Obiter Dicta — Augustine Birrell |
Obiter Dicta “Is it necessary that they should be the record of a noble character? Certainly not. We remember Pepys, who--well, never mind what he does. We call to mind Cellini; he runs behind a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Good Sense — Baron D'Holbach |
Good Sense “Full title: GOOD SENSE WITHOUT GOD: OR FREETHOUGHTS OPPOSED TO SUPERNATURAL IDEAS A TRANSLATION OF BARON D'HOLBACH'S "LE BON SENS"…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | On Something — H. Belloc |
On Something “Then there is this element in the anonymity of good work, that a man very often has no idea how good the work is which he has done. The anecdotes (such as that famous one of Keats)…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | If I May — A. A. Milne |
If I May “My partciular memory is of a quail-pie. Quails may be all right for Moses in the desert, but, if they are served in the form of pie at dinner, they should be distributed at a side-…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Path to Rome — Hilaire Belloc |
The Path to Rome “When that first Proverb-Maker who has imposed upon all peoples by his epigrams and his fallacious half-truths, his empiricism and his wanton appeals to popular ignorance, I say whe…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | An Essay on Criticism |
An Essay on Criticism “Of all the causes which conspire to blind/ Man's erring judgment and misguide the mind,/ What the weak head with strongest bias rules,/ Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools./ …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Friends in Council — Sir Arthur Helps |
Friends in Council “A reasonable watchfulness against conformity will not lead a man to spurn the aid of other men, still less to reject the accumulated mental capital of ages. It does not compel us t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Ars Recte Vivende — George William Curtis |
Ars Recte Vivende “Yet that result aroused public sentiment to the atrocity of this barbarous survival of the ordeal of private battle. That one of the most justly renowned of public men, of unsurpas…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | First and Last — H. Belloc |
First and Last “But apart from the importance of consulting original sources--which is like hearing the very witnesses themselves in court--there is a factor in historical judgment which by some u…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 — George William Curtis |
From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 “Honestus walked quietly home, perceiving that the result of his practical effort to discharge the primary duties of a citizen was that Sly, one of the most disreputable and dishone…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) — Nahum Slouschz |
The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) “Bi-Mezulot Yam ("In the Depths of the Sea") revives a terrible episode of the exodus of the Jews from Spain (1492). The refugees embarked on pirate vessels, where they were exploit…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Outlines of English and American Literature — William J. Long |
Outlines of English and American Literature “At the present time a different kind of fiction is momentarily popular; yet if we begin one of Brown's bloodcurdling romances, the chances are that we shall finish it, since it app…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare |
Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare “Vol. I, Comedies.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Intentions — Oscar Wilde |
Intentions “ERNEST. Well, while you have been playing, I have been turning over the pages with some amusement, though, as a rule, I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Jewish History — S. M. Dubnow |
Jewish History “Full title: JEWISH HISTORY. AN ESSAY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Wagner's Tristan und Isolde — George Ainslie Hight |
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde “Wagner's Tristan has often--even by Lichtenberger--been described as a philosophic work; and as abstract thought or philosophy, it is said, is foreign to art, a work which admits i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Origin of Honour — Bernard Mandeville |
Origin of Honour “Full title: An Enquiry into the Origin of Honour, and the Usefulness of Christianity in War…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | The Poet's Poet — Elizabeth Atkins |
The Poet's Poet “Full title: THE POET'S POET Essays on the Character and Mission of the Poet As Interpreted in English Verse of the Last One Hundred and Fifty Years…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | A Traveller in Little Things — W. H. Hudson |
A Traveller in Little Things “Some vague speculations passed through my mind as to how old the village might be. I had heard some person remark that it had formerly been much more populous, that many of its peo…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago — Ben Hecht |
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago “Sherwood Anderson, the writer, and I were eating lunch in the back room of a saloon. Against the opposite wall sat a red-faced little man with an elaborate mustache and a bald head…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Impressions And Comments — Havelock Ellis |
Impressions And Comments “The musically voiced bells sound the hour from the great church, rich in beauty and tradition, and we walk across the market-place, this side the castle hill--the hill which held f…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Literary and Social Essays — George William Curtis |
Literary and Social Essays “We Americans laugh at ancestors; and if the best of them came back again, we should be as likely to laugh at his wig as listen to his wisdom. And in our evanescent houses and uneas…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Imaginations and Reveries — (A.E.) George William Russell |
Imaginations and Reveries “The art of Hone and the elder Yeats, while in spirit filled with a sentiment which was the persistence of ancient moods into modern times, still has not the external characteristic…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | National Being — (A.E.) George William Russell |
National Being “The change from static to dynamic, from fixed forms to fluid forms, has been coming swiftly over the world owing to the liberation of thought, and this in spite of the obstruction …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Tremendous Trifles — G.K. Chesterton |
Tremendous Trifles “So it was, certainly, with the Bastille. The destruction of the Bastille was not a reform; it was something more important than a reform. It was an iconoclasm; it was the breaking …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |