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On Translating Homer
by Mathew ArnoldIt has more than once been suggested to me that I should translate Homer. That is a task for which I have neither the time nor the courage; but the suggestion led me to regard yet more closely a poet whom I had already long studied, and for one or two years the works of Homer were seldom out of my hands. The study of classical literature is probabl..
This Then is Upland Pastures
by Adeline KnappThis Then is Upland PasturesBeing some out-door essays dealing with the beautiful things that the spring and summer bring.Nature will help us if we turn to her. We have filled our lives so full of complexities and problems that it is well for us to have her annual reminder that even without our taking thought about it the real world, that will be h..
The Dream-God
by John CuninghamThe peculiar and startling effect of morphine on a person unaccustomed to its administration, was happily illustrated in the instance of a gentleman to whom, under its influence, (about three eighths of a grain,) the dream to be related occurred. This individual, (a South Carolinian resident on a plantation,) a few years ago, had lately received a ..
Mere Literature, and Other Essays
by Bryce WaltonA singular phrase this, “mere literature,”—the irreverent invention of a scientific age. Literature we know, but “mere” literature? We are not to read it as if it meant sheer literature, literature in the essence, stripped of all accidental or ephemeral elements, and left with nothing but its immortal charm and power. “Mere literature” is a serious..
A Life's Story, In Poetry. Other Poems
by Dennison WoodcockA Life's Story, In Poetry, by Dennison WoodcockA LIFE'S STORYDIADAMATO LEONAJESSIE BY THE FOUNTAINDEHEWAMISTHE RUMSELLER'S SOLILOQUYWRIGHTSCAUTION TO BOYS, or THE SILLY FLYTHE RUINED HOME.IN FAVOR of WOMAN'S SUFFRAGECHRISTMAS..
Impromptu - How to Think on Your Feet
by Grenville KleiserThe game of "Impromptu" is the outgrowth of an exercise devised by the author and used by him in The Public Speaking Club of America.A number of cards, each bearing a separate subject, are placed in a hat. Then a member of the club stands up, selects one of the cards, announces the subject named on the card, and proceeds to speak on that particular..
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 06 (of 12)
by William HazlittThe first edition was published in two 8vo volumes, the first volume in 1821 with the following title-page: ‘Table-Talk; or, Original Essays. By William Hazlitt. London: John Warren, Old Bond-Street 1821’; the second volume in 1822 with the following title-page: ‘Table-Talk; or, Original Essays. By William Hazlitt. Vol. II. London: Printed for Henr..
Impressions and experiences
by William Dean HowellsMy earliest memories, or those which I can make sure are not the sort of early hearsay that we mistake for remembrance later in life, concern a country newspaper, or, rather, a country printing-office. The office was in my childish consciousness some years before the paper was; the compositors rhythmically swaying before their cases of type; the pr..