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Eugene Aram — Volume 02Eugene Aram — Volume 02Aram's affection to Madeline having now been formally announced to Lester, and Madeline's consent having been somewhat less formally obtained, it only remained to fix the time for their wedding. Though Lester forbore to question Aram as to his circumstances,...
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Eugene Aram — Volume 01Eugene Aram — Volume 01If none of my prose works have been so attacked as "Eugene Aram," none have so completely triumphed over attack. It is true that, whether from real or affected inorance of the true morality of fiction, a few critics may...
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Zicci: A Tale — CompleteZicci: A Tale — Complete In the gardens at Naples, one summer evening in the last century, some four or five gentlemen were seated under a tree drinking their sherbet and listening, in the intervals of conversation, to the music which enlivened that gay...
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Zicci: A Tale — Volume 02Zicci: A Tale — Volume 02 A Tale Merton and the Italians arrived in safety at the spot where they had left the mules; and not till they had recovered their own alarm and breath did they think of Glyndon. But then, as the...
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Zicci: A Tale — Volume 01Zicci: A Tale — Volume 01In the gardens at Naples, one summer evening in the last century, some four or five gentlemen were seated under a tree drinking their sherbet and listening, in the intervals of conversation, to the music which enlivened that gay...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — CompleteThe Caxtons: A Family Picture — Complete If it be the good fortune of this work to possess any interest for the Novel reader, that interest, perhaps, will be but little derived from the customary elements of fiction. The plot is extremely slight, the...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 18The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 18Adieu, thou beautiful land, Canaan of the exiles, and Ararat to many a shattered ark! Fair cradle of a race for whom the unbounded heritage of a future that no sage can conjecture, no prophet divine, lies...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 17The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 17The stage-scene has dropped. Settle yourselves, my good audience; chat each with his neighbor. Dear madam in the boxes, take up your opera- glass and look about you. Treat Tom and pretty Sal to some of those...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 16The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 16I did not recognize the handwriting, and yet the note was from one whose writing I had often seen. But formerly the writing was cramped, stiff, perpendicular (a feigned hand, though I guessed not it was feigned);...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 15The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 15Reader, hast thou not, in the easy, careless sociability of youth, formed acquaintance with some one in whose more engaging or brilliant qualities thou hast,not lost that dislike to defects or vices which is natural to an...
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Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845Mr. Webster approaches as nearly to the beau ideal of a republican Senator as any man that I have ever seen in the course of my life; worthy of Rome or Venice rather than of our noisy and wrangling...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 14The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 14There is a beautiful and singular passage in Dante (which has not perhaps attracted the attention it deserves), wherein the stern Florentine defends Fortune from the popular accusations against her. According to him she is an angelic...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 13The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 13Saint Chrysostom, in his work on "The Priesthood," defends deceit, if for a good purpose, by many Scriptural examples; ends his first book by asserting that it is often necessary, and that much benefit may arise from...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 12The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 12The Hegira is completed,we have all taken roost in the old Tower. My father's books have arrived by the wagon, and have settled themselves quietly in their new abode,filling up the apartment dedicated to their owner, including...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 11The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 11The next day, on the outside of the "Cambridge Telegraph," there was one passenger who ought to have impressed his fellow-travellers with a very respectful idea of his lore in the dead languages; for not a single...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 10The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 10My uncle's conjecture as to the parentage of Francis Vivian seemed to me a positive discovery. Nothing more likely than that this wilful boy had formed some headstrong attachment which no father would sanction, and so, thwarted...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 09The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 09O young reader, whoever thou art,or reader at least who hast been young,canst thou not remember some time when, with thy wild troubles and sorrows as yet borne in secret, thou hast come back from that hard,...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 08The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 08There entered, in the front drawing-room of my father's house in Russell Street, an Elf! clad in white,small, delicate, with curls of jet over her shoulders; with eyes so large and so lustrous that they shone through...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 07The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 07I wish I had copied that passage from "The Table Talk" in large round hand, and set it before my father at breakfast, the morn preceding that fatal eve in which Uncle Jack persuaded him to tell...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 06Reader, Mr. Trevanion has been half an hour seated in our little drawing-room. He has received two cups of tea from my mother's fair hand; he has made himself at home. With Mr. Trevanion has come another...
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