Life and Writing by Arthur Christopher Benson There is a tendency, not by any means among the...
THE WHAT AND THE HOW IN ART by William Dean Howells One of the things always enforcing...
A MODEST PROPOSAL Dr. Jonathan Swift For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being...
MR. KIPLING’S STORIES The wind bloweth where it listeth. But the wind of literary inspiration has rarely...
LIFE by Percy Bysshe Shelley Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are...
A JULY AFTER-NOON BY THE POND The fervent heat, but so much more endurable in this pure...
POEMS IN PROSE by Oscar Wilde THE ARTIST ONE evening there came into his soul the desire...
Let brevity despatch the rapid thought. I have somewhere read of an eminent person who used in...
One has the leisure of July for perceiving all the differences of the green of leaves. It...
Most of us, mere men that we are, find ourselves caught in some entanglement of our...
Henry James is Awesome! by Willa Cather Their mania for careless and hasty work is not...
Visions and magic spells, can you despise, And laugh at witches, ghosts, and prodigies? Going yesterday to...
In the present state of society, it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search...
NEW YORK As we drew near to New York I was at first amused, and then somewhat...
Of Wisdom For A Man’s Self by Francis Bacon AN ANT is a wise creature for itself,...
