Outline an for paper or essay term. Why does he not, in like manner, pick a quarrel with that celebrated monument in the _Pere la Chaise_, brought there ‘From Paraclete’s white walls and silver springs;’ or why does he not leave a lampoon, instead of an elegy, on Laura’s tomb? {215} The command of the less violent and turbulent passions […]

Paul’s!—Burke, it is said, conversed as he spoke in public, and as he wrote. Personal vanity is incompatible with the great and the _ideal_. (7) Don’t buy “sets” and “libraries;” they are adulterated literature, coffee mixed with chicory. It is hardly to be believed that even a Spanish imagination could invent the dark and terrible details of this dismal story; […]

This kind of successful ventriloquism which we practise upon ourselves may perhaps be in some measure accounted for from the short-sightedness and incomplete consciousness which were remarked above as the peculiar characteristics of sleep. The great mob of mankind are the admirers and worshippers, and, what may seem more extraordinary, most frequently the disinterested admirers and worshippers, of wealth and […]

From speculative pursuits we must be satisfied with speculative benefits. But as the mind cannot enjoy any good but what it possesses within itself, neither can it seek to produce any good but what it can enjoy: it is just as idle to suppose that the love of happiness or good should prompt any being to give up his own […]

On looking at it closely we perceive that it represents an ogre of horrid mien with a death-head grin and formidable teeth, his hair wild and long, the locks falling down upon the neck; and suspended on the breast as an ornament is the bone of a human lower jaw with its incisor teeth. A part of the temperate mirth […]

This is what people do; they do not expect to eat or make a dinner of them; but we sometimes want to fill up the time before dinner. We do not see its divisions, but we feel the galling pressure of each creeping sand that measures out our hours. It is the combination of such simple Sensations, as differ not […]

He was a favorite of Henry II. Nay, more, as a forced performance, it presumably has a disagreeable feeling of irksomeness as its accompaniment. In general it may be laid down for a maxim, that the more simple any language is in its composition, the more complex it must be in its declensions and its conjugations; and on the contrary, […]

The one I give you from the Kioway is not open to this censure A KIOWAY LOVE-SONG. We are merely beginning the enormous labor which is before us; we have yet to discover the methods by which we can analyze fruitfully the facts we already know. As, by some of the later sects of philosophers, particularly by the Stoics, all […]

A patent to collect certain dues for the erection of a pier was granted in the 14th of Richard II. {160} Her appearance and manners are exceedingly polite, pleasing, and affectionate; she is attentive to others, in all those little nameless etiquettes of life, which, when regulated by truth, constitute the innocent fascination of a kind-hearted and well-bred character; and […]

A person who comes to the library for the purpose of visiting the music room will find it, no matter where it may be, but the reader who needs to have his attention called to it or in whose case it must compete for use with other books, will never do so. With the eyes of this great inmate he […]