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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr TeufelsdröckhSartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times...
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The Dark Lady of the SonnetsThe Dark Lady of the Sonnets I had better explain why, in this little piece d'occasion, written for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for establishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady...
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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England WomanVanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman I have written this story of my army life at the urgent and ceaseless request of my children. For whenever I allude to those early days, and tell to them the tales...
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The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human NatureThe Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature In every life worth writing about there is a ruling passion,the very pulse of the machine. Unless you touch that, you are groping around outside of reality. Sometimes it is romantic love: Natures masterpiece of...
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The New MachiavelliThe New Machiavelli Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living, and I have...
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God, the Invisible KingGod, the Invisible King This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and...
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Venus and AdonisVenus and Adonis Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burthen: only, if your honour seem...
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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to HeavenExtract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to HeavenWell, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. Like a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the...
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The Story of EvolutionThe Story of Evolution An ingenious student of science once entertained his generation with a theory of how one might behold again all the stirring chapters that make up the story of the earth. The living scene of our time is lit by the...
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A Reading of Life, with Other PoemsA Reading of Life, with Other PoemsThrough the water-eye of night, Midway between eve and dawn, See the chase, the rout, the flight In deep forest; oread, faun, Goat-foot, antlers laid on neck; Ravenous all the line for speed. See yon wavy sparkle beck...
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Shakespeare's SonnetsShakespeare's Sonnets From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beautys rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feedst thy lights flame with self-substantial...
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The Three Taverns: A Book of PoemsThe Three Taverns: A Book of Poems The Valley of the Shadow The Wandering Jew Neighbors The Mill The Dark Hills The Three Taverns Demos I Demos II The Flying Dutchman Tact On the Way John Brown The False Gods Archibald's Example London Bridge...
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South AfricaMissionary Travels and Researches in South Africa Personal SketchHighland AncestorsFamily TraditionsGrandfather removes to the LowlandsParentsEarly Labors and Efforts Evening SchoolLove of ReadingReligious ImpressionsMedical EducationYouthful TravelsGeologyMental DisciplineStudy in GlasgowLondon Missionary SocietyNative VillageMedical DiplomaTheological StudiesDeparture for AfricaNo Claim to Literary Accomplishments. My own inclination would lead...
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StyleStyleStyle, 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 enough, which yet might serve for an epitome of literary method, the...
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The Life of John BunyanThe Life of John BunyanJohn Bunyan, the author of the book which has probably passed through more editions, had a greater number of readers, and been translated into more languages than any other book in the English tongue, was born in the parish of...
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Joe Wilson and His MatesJoe Wilson and His Mates Transcribers Note: This etext was entered twice (manually) and electronically compared, by Alan R. Light This method assures a low rate of errors in the textoften lower than in the original. Special thanks go to Gary M. Johnson, of...
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The Man Against the Sky: A Book of PoemsThe Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems [Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are capitalized. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken and the continuation is indented two spaces. Some obvious errors may have been corrected.] Several of the poems included...
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PoemsPoems This book is not about heroes. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, dominion or power, [End of original text.] General Notes: Due to the general circumstances surrounding...
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Rose o' the RiverRose o' the RiverIt was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet. An early ablution of this sort was...
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The PupilThe PupilThe poor young man hesitated and procrastinated: it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms, to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and, as it were, of the aristocracy. Yet he was unwilling to...
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