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Frederick the Great and His CourtFrederick the Great and His Court The palace glittered with light and splendor; the servants ran here and there, arranging the sofas and chairs; the court gardener cast a searching glance at the groups of flowers which he had placed in the saloons; and...
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Wild ApplesWild Apples It is remarkable how closely the history of the Apple-tree is connected with that of man. The geologist tells us that the order of the Rosace, which includes the Apple, also the true Grasses, and the Labiat, or Mints, were introduced only...
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Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular ScienceSide-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science In preparing and issuing this collection of essays and addresses, the author has yielded to what he could not but regard as the too flattering judgment of the publishers. Having done this, it became incumbent...
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Moonbeams from the Larger LunacyMoonbeams from the Larger Lunacy The prudent husbandman, after having taken from his field all the straw that is there, rakes it over with a wooden rake and gets as much again. The wise child, after the lemonade jug is empty, takes the lemons...
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Peter Plymley's Letters, and Selected EssaysPeter Plymley's Letters, and Selected EssaysSydney Smith, of the same age as Walter Scott, was born at Woodford, in Essex, in the year 1771, and he died of heart disease, aged seventy-four, on the 22nd of February, 1845. His father was a clever man...
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Gaston de Latour an unfinished romanceGaston de Latour; an unfinished romanceThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally...
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The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to WaterlooThe Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo It is an honourable characteristic of the Spirit of this Age, that projects of violence and warfare are regarded among civilized states with gradually increasing aversion. The Universal Peace Society certainly does not,...
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The Renaissance: studies in art and poetryThe Renaissance: studies in art and poetryThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can...
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Miscellaneous Studies a series of essaysMiscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Notes: The 1910 Library Edition employs footnotes, a style inconvenient in an electronic edition. I have therefore placed an asterisk immediately after each of Pater's footnotes and a + sign after my own notes, and have listed each...
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Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Greek typeface: For this full-text edition, I have transliterated Paters Greek quotations. If there is a need for the original Greek, it can be viewed at my site, http://www.ajdrake.com/etexts, a Victorianist archive that contains the complete works of...
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Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Greek typeface: For this full-text edition, I have transliterated Paters Greek quotations. If there is a need for the original Greek, it can be viewed at my site, http://www.ajdrake.com/etexts, a Victorianist archive that contains the complete works of...
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Two FestivalsTwo Festivals It is the evening before the first of May, and the boys are looking forward to a May-day festival with the children in the neighborhood. Mrs. Chilton read aloud these beautiful lines of Milton: Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes...
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The Future of the Colored Race in AmericaThe Future of the Colored Race in America - Being an article in the Presbyterian quarterly review of July, 1862This should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully...
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A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 It may be deemed presumptuous that one of my age and sex should venture to give to the public an account of personal adventures in a land which has so often been descanted...
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Nuttie's FatherNuttie's Father The town of Micklethwayte was rising and thriving. There were salubrious springs which an enterprising doctor had lately brought into notice. The firm of Greenleaf and Dutton manufactured umbrellas in large quantities, from the stout weather-proof family roof down to the daintiest...
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Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk IslandAddress to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island I do not think it necessary to make an apology for putting this Address into your hands; or to enter into a long detail of the reasons which induced...
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Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian lifeLady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life Mrs Gildea had settled early to her morning's work in what she called the veranda-study of her cottage in Leichardt's Town. It was a primitive cottage of the old style, standing in a...
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Mates at BillabongMates at Billabong The grey old dwelling, rambling and wide, With the homestead paddocks on either side, And the deep verandahs and porches tall Where the vine climbs high on the trellised wall. G. ESSEX EVANS. Billabong homestead lay calm and peaceful in the...
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PiccolissimaPiccolissima This little story I have translated from the French of Mademoiselle Montgolfier. If children enjoy it as much as I have, and think it as pretty, they will not regret that I have preferred it to any thing I could write for them....
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The Talkative WigThe Talkative Wig "You know," said she, "it was on a rainy Sunday when my mother sent me up there with my book, Pilgrim's Progress. This book always delighted me, and set my fancy to work in some way or other. After reading a...
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