W.B. Yeats challenges literary conventions in 'What is Popular Poetry?', exploring authentic Irish verse and how true...
About War Poetry by George Herbert Clarke (1917) Because man is both militant and pacific, he has...
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...
In those early days duelling suddenly became a fashion in the new Territory of Nevada, and by...
1. “The business would suit any one who enjoys bad health.” [From an advertisement in a daily...
My dearest Love, I received your welcome letter on arriving here last night, and am rejoiced to...
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...
Truthfulness is as essential in literature as it is in conduct, in fiction as it is in...
John Dyer, of whom I have no other account to give than his own letters, published with...
Le Monastier is the chief place of a hilly canton in Haute Loire, the ancient Velay. As...
1. Great men are more distinguished by range and extent, than by originality. If we require the...
There were still Guelfs and Ghibellines in 1265, but the old names had partially lost their meaning...
Nothing could have been better than Mr. Emery Walker’s lecture on Letterpress Printing and Illustration, delivered last...
