Reading by Henry David Thoreau With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all...
Classic Articles on Writing
Classic articles on writing art some of the most interesting and telling works by past authors. Here you will find articles from the past by authors that range from the famous to the obscure.
A New Point of View by Leo Tolstoy Katenka was with me in the britchka; her lovely...
Likely and more than evenly, unevenly and not unlikely, very much that and anyway more, this is...
About War Poetry by George Herbert Clarke (1917) Because man is both militant and pacific, he has...
I Rossetti in one of his letters numbers his favourite colours in the order of his favour,...
THE stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage,...
—Cui mens divinior, atque os Magna sonaturum des nominis hujus honorem. Hor., Sat. i. 4, 43. On...
Of all persons who are objects of our charity, none move my compassion like those whom it...
In those early days duelling suddenly became a fashion in the new Territory of Nevada, and by...
Man is a blind, helpless creature. He looks back with pride upon his goodly heritage of the...
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature...
My dearest Love, I received your welcome letter on arriving here last night, and am rejoiced to...
I was always heedless. I was born heedless; and therefore I was constantly, and quite unconsciously, committing...
On my arrival at Rome I found that the story of the Cenci was a subject not...
Nothing so foolish as the laugh of fools. Among all kinds of writing, there is none in...
