Old Is Gold

Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2I have been here some five weeks: but before my Letter reaches you shall probably have slid back into the Country somewhere. This is my old Lodging, but new numbered. I have been almost alone here:...

The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany - Parts 2, 3 and 4 This is purposely to acknowledge the Obligations I owe to several Gentlemen, who have shewn their Esteem of the Merry Thought, in the large Collections they have communicated before the...

A Sermon Preached at the Quaker's Meeting House, in Gracechurch-Street, London, Eighth Month 12th, 1694.The perusal of the first numbers of a series of tracts, containing extracts from the writings of "early Friends," and published for the avowed purpose of lowering the estimation in...

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. - Or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., and His Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, Through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life (1821)...

Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy.Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New...

Strong Souls - A Sermon Life is a gift of very unequal distribution. I am not speaking merely of length of life, though that is an important element in the case: there may be sad and quiet years which do not count: we have...

Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1After Mr. FitzGeralds death in June 1883 a small tin box addressed to me was found by his executors, containing among other things corrected copies of his printed works, and the following letter, which must have...

"America for Americans!" - The Typical American, Thanksgiving SermonDear Sir: The universal approval by every loyal, liberty-loving American citizen who listened to your Thanksgiving sermon yesterday, together with the philosophic and fearless manner with which the great themes therein discussed were treated, prompts a...

Adieu à la France - Sur l'embarquement du sieur de Poutrincourt et de son Équipage faisant voile en la terre de Canadas dicte la France Occidentalleres que la saison du Printemps nous invite A seillonner le dos de la vague Amphitrite, Et kaler vers...

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Not because of the short period of her mourning was the news so incredible. But by a most exceptional mourning Moriah had put herself upon record as the most inconsolable of widows. The rules governing the wearing of...

Jean RacineJe pourrais vous dire aussi qu'ayant tudi Jean-Jacques Rousseau l'an dernier, j'ai cherch un effet de contraste: Racine, traditionaliste; Rousseau, rvolutionnaire; Racine, catholique franais, monarchiste; Rousseau, protestant genevois, rpublicain; Racine, artiste pur; Rousseau, philosophe et promoteur d'ides Mais ce parallle, suggr par un...

Beside the Still Waters - A Sermon There has been a period of geological speculation, at which all the changes which have taken place upon the earth's surface, and have left their unmistakable marks in countless relics of animal and vegetable life, were attributed...

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers t was the morning before the Twelfth, years ago, and nothing like unto Muirtown Station could have been found in all the travelling world. For Muirtown, as everybody knows, is the centre which receives the southern immigrants in autumn,...

Benjamin Constant Tout en ne m'intressant qu' moi, je m'intressais faiblement moi-mme. Je portais au fond de mon cur un besoin de sensibilit dont je ne m'apercevais pas, mais qui, ne trouvant point se satisfaire, me dtachait successivement de tous les objets qui, tour...

Rhymes of the East and Re-collected VersesNearly all the verses that now make their first appearance in book form are reprinted from Punch, by kind permission of Messrs. Bradbury and Agnew. The rest I have taken from two little books that were published in...

Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National PolicyChristianity is a fact. We sometimes hear of men who are said to 'deny' 'Christianity.' The expression is nonsense. Men cannot deny the sun. Christianity has been a visible...

JackanapesTwo Donkeys and the Geese lived on the Green, and all other residents of any social standing lived in houses round it. The houses had no names. Everybody's address was, "The Green," but the Postman and the people of [2]the place knew where each...

The Spinners' Book of FictionThe fund, which the sale of this book is purposed to aid, was planned by The Spinners soon after the eighteenth of April, 1906, and was started with two hundred dollars from their treasury. To this, Mrs. Gertrude Atherton added...

Le prince corsaire Vous pleurez un Grand Roy dont les heureuses Armes, Tenoient la Cypre en paix, & l'Asie en allarmes. Les Peuples loignez qu'il vous avoit somis, Las d'estre vos sujets seront vos ennemis. Le trespas d'un Monarque branle ses conquestes, Et dans...

That StickOh, theres that stick. What can he want? sighed one of a pair of dignified elderly ladies, in black silk, to the other, as in a quiet country-town street they saw themselves about to be accosted by a man of about forty, with...