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"My Novel" — Volume 09"My Novel" — Volume 09Now that I am fairly in the heart of my story, these preliminary chapters must shrink into comparatively small dimensions, and not encroach upon the space required by the various personages whose acquaintance I have picked up here and there,...
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"My Novel" — Volume 08"My Novel" — Volume 08There is at present so vehement a flourish of trumpets, and so prodigious a roll of the drum, whenever we are called upon to throw up our hats, and cry "Huzza" to the "March of Enlightenment," that, out of that...
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"My Novel" — Volume 07"My Novel" — Volume 07"What is courage?" he repeated more earnestly. "Is it insensibility to fear? That may be the mere accident of constitution; and if so, there is no more merit in being courageous than in being this table." "I am very glad...
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"My Novel" — Volume 06"My Novel" — Volume 06"Life," said my father, in his most dogmatical tone, "is a certain quantity in time, which may be regarded in two ways,First, as life integral; Second, as life fractional. Life integral is that complete whole expressive of a certain value,...
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"My Novel" — Volume 05"My Novel" — Volume 05"Well, sir, well! I think my Discourse upon Knowledge has much to do with the subject, is vitally essential to the subject; does not stop the action,only explains and elucidates the action. And I am astonished, sir, that you, a...
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"My Novel" — Volume 04"My Novel" — Volume 04"It was no bad idea of yours, Pisistratus," said my father, graciously, "to depict the heightened affections and the serious intention of Signor Riccabocca by a single stroke, /He left of his spectacles!/ Good." "Yet," quoth my uncle, "I think...
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"My Novel" — Volume 03"My Novel" — Volume 03"I am not displeased with your novel, so far as it has gone," said my father, graciously; "though as for the Sermon" Here I trembled; but the ladies, Heaven bless them! had taken Parson Dale under their special protection; and...
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"My Novel" — Volume 02"My Novel" — Volume 02MR. CAXTON."Why, indeed, Fielding says, very justly, that he is not bound to assign any reason; but he does assign a good many, here and there,to find which I refer you to 'Tom Jones.' I will only observe, that one...
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"My Novel" — Volume 01"My Novel" — Volume 01MR. CAXTON is seated before a great geographical globe, which he is turning round leisurely, and "for his own recreation," as, according to Sir Thomas Browne, a philosopher should turn round the orb of which that globe professes to be...
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A Strange Story — CompleteA Strange Story — Complete Of the many illustrious thinkers whom the schools of France have contributed to the intellectual philosophy of our age, Victor Cousin, the most accomplished, assigns to Maine de Biran the rank of the most original. In the successive developments...
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LysistrataLysistrata Lysistrata is the greatest work by Aristophanes. This blank and rash statement is made that it may be rejected. But first let it be understood that I do not mean it is a better written work than the Birds or the Frogs, or...
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A Strange Story — Volume 08A Strange Story — Volume 08My Work, my Philosophical Work-the ambitious hope of my intellectual lifehow eagerly I returned to it again! Far away from my household grief, far away from my haggard perplexitiesneither a Lilian nor a Margrave there! As I went over...
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A Strange Story — Volume 07A Strange Story — Volume 07Lilian's wondrous gentleness of nature did not desert her in the suspension of her reason. She was habitually calm,very silent; when she spoke it was rarely on earthly things, on things familiar to her past, things one could comprehend....
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A Strange Story — Volume 06A Strange Story — Volume 06There is an instance of the absorbing tyranny of every-day life which must have struck all such of my readers as have ever experienced one of those portents which are so at variance with every-day life, that the ordinary...
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A Strange Story — Volume 05A Strange Story — Volume 05The lawyer came the next day, and with something like a smile on his lips. He brought me a few lines in pencil from Mrs. Ashleigh; they were kindly expressed, bade me be of good cheer; "she never for...
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A Strange Story — Volume 04A Strange Story — Volume 04On reaching my own home, I found my servant sitting up for me with the information that my attendance was immediately required. The little boy whom Margrave's carelessness had so injured, and for whose injury he had shown so...
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A Strange Story — Volume 03A Strange Story — Volume 03My intercourse with Margrave grew habitual and familiar. He came to my house every morning before sunrise; in the evenings we were again brought together: sometimes in the houses to which we were both invited, sometimes at his hotel,...
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A Strange Story — Volume 02A Strange Story — Volume 02The next day I had just dismissed the last of my visiting patients, and was about to enter my carriage and commence my round, when I received a twisted note containing but these words: M. Poyntz. "Well, Allen Fenwick"...
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A Strange Story — Volume 01A Strange Story — Volume 01Of the many illustrious thinkers whom the schools of France have contributed to the intellectual philosophy of our age, Victor Cousin, the most accomplished, assigns to Maine de Biran the rank of the most original. In the successive developments...
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Lucretia — CompleteLucretia — Complete It is somewhere about four years since I appeared before the public as the writer of a fiction, which I then intimated would probably be my last; but bad habits are stronger than good intentions. When Fabricio, in his hospital, resolved...
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