...C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A... ...PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versit... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...ACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ....................................................................... ...DIT CAN EDITOR OF OR OF OR OF OR OF OR OF THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS W W W W WORKS. ORKS. ORKS. ORKS. ORKS. Lasswade, January 8, 1853 MY DEAR SIR: I am ... ...rnals. Now, that mode of publication is un- avoidably disadvantageous to a writer, except under unusual conditions. By its harsh peremptory punctualit... ... influence which could en- able them rapidly to diffuse the knowledge of a writer. A reader whose social standing is moderate may communicate his view... ...ose social standing is moderate may communicate his views upon a book or a writer to his own circle; but his own circle is a narrow one. Whereas, in a...

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ....................................

...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Haight Tu... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...lectronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...with regard to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Spenser’s minor poems, and the great writers and characters of Elizabeth’s age and those of Cromwell’s time.” Fr... ...cess. During his last years he nearly completed a collected edition of his works. He died in Edinburgh on the 8th of December, 1859. II. CRITICAL REMA... ...and insight are always a little in advance of his good judgment. As to the works of the first class, the Reminiscences are de- faced by the shrewish s... ...y by the poet. In reality his style owed much to the seven- teenth-century writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne. He took part with Coleridge,... ...ative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in preference to other writers of his class, the favor of youthful readers. It would be too much t...

...ections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

...CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER by Thomas De Quincey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION C... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Class... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...more. Indeed, the fascinating powers of opium are admitted even by medical writers, who are its greatest enemies. Thus, for instance, Awsiter, apothec... ...tory narrative of the youthful adventures which laid the foundation of the writer’s habit of opium-eating in after-life, it has been judged proper to ... ...ter with a coronet on the seal. The letter was kind and obliging. The fair writer was on the sea-coast, and in that way the delay had arisen; she encl... ...s one of our wisest men; and let my reader see if he, in his philosophical works, be half as unmystical as I am. I say, then, that it has often struck... ...nomy; and, at my desire, M. sometimes read to me chapters from more recent works, or parts of parliamentary debates. I saw that these were generally t...

Excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

...Honorine by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Honorine... ...y Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State University, ... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...e you not the reputation of your name to leave me, the memory of your good works—?’ “ ‘We need say nothing of that inheritance,’ he replied, smiling. ... ...d a thirst to quench. As soon as I had read a few modern masterpieces, the works of all the preceding ages were greedily swallowed. I became crazy abo... ...ery anxiety, against every mistake; this profound legislator, this serious writer, this pious celi- bate whose life sufficiently proved that he was op... ... I know noth- ing? Should I write a letter, and have it copied by a public writer, and laid before Honorine? But that would be to run the risk of a th... ...of art, the tricks of style, and the efforts made in their compositions by writers who do not lack skill; but you will acknowledge that literature cou...

...ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877... ...77 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877... ...ced as part of an ongo- ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ....................................................... 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY V ARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END....................................... ...literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be re- garded as a classic, not only in the land of his ... ...o new channels. It told its readers, with unexampled frank- ness, what its writer’s opinion was about men and things, and threw what must have been a ... ...e a sort of literary 7 Montaigne anatomy, where we get a diagnosis of the writer’s mind, made by himself at different levels and under a large variet... ... as a schoolboy pulls his watch to pieces, to examine the mechanism of the works; and the result, accompanied by illustrations abound- ing with origin... ...t they had said 18 Essays: Book the First against my book, they instanced works of our time by cardi- nals and other divines of excellent repute whic...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

...E ............................................................................................................................. 24 CHAPTER I THAT MEN BY VARIOUS WAYS ARRIVE AT THE SAME END............................................... 57 CHAPTER II OF SORROW ......................................................................................................................

...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac IN A SPANISH CITY on an island in the Mediterranean, th... ...ini, the musician who brings most human passion into his art. Some day his works, by their number and extent, will re- ceive the reverence due to the ... ... a law to others. And the art of words, the high pressure machinery of the writer, the poet’s genius, the merchant’s steady endurance, the strong will... ...ey needed its support. While Lamartine, Lamennais, Montalembert, and other writers were putting new life and elevation into men’s ideas of religion, a... ...the reasoners, the sanguine rather than the lymphatic tempera- ments, love works a complete revolution. In a flash, with one single reflection, Armand... ... men whose hobby was well known in the United States; indeed, some Spanish writer had writ- ten a history of them. The presence of the brig among the ...

...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true....

...nia State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any w... ...sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project... ...: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 V ailima Lett... ...strangling enemy, and which we combat with axes and dollars. I went crazy over outdoor work, and had at last to confine myself to the house, or litera... ...that its stem is strong. 15 V ailima Letters SUPPLEMENTARY PAGE. Here beginneth the third lesson, which is not from the planter but from a less estim... ...re at my hand for the purpose, but I was not going to lose this experience; and, instead of writ- ing mere letters, have poured out a lot of stuff for... ...with my first chapter, and for good or evil I must 46 Robert Louis Stevenson finish it. It is really good, well fed with facts, true to the manners, ... ...at while of yore, when I own I was guilty, you never spared me abuse, but now, when I am so virtuous, where is the praise?Do admit that I have become ... ...France and Holland; and Singular Relations with James More Drummond or MacGregor, a Son of the Notorious Rob Roy. Chapters. —I. A Beggar on Horseback...

Excerpt: Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson.

...The Poems of Emily Dickinson With an Introduction by Martha Dickinson Bianchi A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...on, and they have increasingly found their elect and been best interpreted by the expansion of those lives they have seized upon by force of their nat... ...always youth, always magical. She wrote of it as she grew to know it, step by step, discovery by discovery, truth by truth—until time merely became et... ...es, So you could see what moved them so. “T ell him it was n’t a practised writer, Y ou guessed, from the way the sentence toiled; Y ou could hear the...

...M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e CHANTRY HOUSE by Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER I—A NURSER CHAPTER I—A NURSER CHAPTER I—A NUR... ...ring us all up, and making a generous use of his success. He was no letter-writer, and after learning that the disaster and dis- grace were all too ce... ...f he had not been growing into my special personal atten- dant, was letter-writer and reader to all his relations, and revealed to us that it had been... ...uessed that the foundation of all those churches and their grand dependent works of pi- ety, mercy, and beneficence was laid in one young girl’s grave... ... had found the dear fellow so valued and valuable, so use- ful in all good works, and so much respected by all the En- glish residents, ‘that really,’...

... ! "# ! St. Ives, The Adventures ... ...re- sponsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. St. Ives, The Adventures ... ...tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publica... ... © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Stevenson St. Ives, The Adventures ... ...iers and criminals. His travelling library consisted of a chap-book life of Wallace and some sixpenny parts of the 168 St. Ives ‘Old Bailey Sessions ... ...r him ad- dressed by the expected name of Robbie. So soon as we were clear of the crowd—‘Mr. Robbie?’ said I, bowing. ‘The very same, sir,’ said he. ‘...

Excerpt: St. Ives, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson.

... ANNA KARENINA A NOVEL BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated from the Russian BY CONSTANCE GARNETT DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global Language... ...o sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in com mon with one another than they, the... ...t with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold colored morocco. And, as he had done every day for th... ...y land, and I don’t mind that. The gentleman does nothing, while the peasant works and supplants the idle man. That’s as it ought to be. And I’m very ... ... a talking, and such a to do, that one would have cause to regret it. At the works, for instance, they pocketed the advance money and made off. What d... ...Thy servants, Konstantin and Ekaterina, leading them in the path of all good works. For gracious and merciful art Thou, our Lord, and glory be to Thee... ..., but mused on the introduction that awaited him to the Petersburg savant, a writer on sociology, and what he would say to him about his book. Only du... ... word has in Moscow, when they talk of an “hon est” politician, an “honest” writer, an “honest” newspaper, an “honest” institution, an “honest” tende... ...sov’s. The author of the article was a young man, an invalid, very bold as a writer, but extremely deficient in breeding and shy in personal relations....

...ainfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ...

...DER POPE VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI... ... VI. VI. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, an... ...ope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, an... ...ope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...EF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE 2 I am inclined to think that both the writers of books, and the readers of them, are generally not a little unrea... ...ld be sacrificed to its entertainment. Therefore I cannot but believe that writers and readers are under equal obligations for as much fame, or pleasu... ... passed upon poems. A critic supposes he has done his part, if he proves a writer to have failed in an expression, or erred in any particular point: a...

Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

...LOVE and FRIENDSHIP and Other Early Works also spelled LOVE AND FREINDSHIP A collection of juvenile writings by... ...y Works also spelled LOVE AND FREINDSHIP A collection of juvenile writings by Jane Austen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Love an... ...n A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Love and Friendship by Jane Austen is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love and Friendship by Jane Austen, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ............... 98 4 Love and Friendship LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP and Other Early Works also spelled LOVE AND FREINDSHIP A collection of juvenile writings by... ...ere deserving, ex- perienced, and able Ministers. But oh! how blinded such writers and such Readers must be to true Merit, to Merit despised, neglecte...

...RY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK ONE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic ... ... Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book One by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the... ... Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book One by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ... To the Right Honorable William Bingham, Lord Ashburton. My Dear Lord, The writer of a book which copies the manners and lan- guage of Queen Anne’s ti... ... 13 Thackeray “His name is Henry Esmond, sure enough, my lady,” says Mrs. Worksop, the housekeeper (an old tyrant whom Henry Esmond plagued more than... ...nd dropped the hand quickly, and walked down the gallery, followed by Mrs. Worksop. When the lady came back, Harry Esmond stood exactly in the same sp... ...ere about the Court of King Charles, and King James, have told the present writer a number of stories about this queer old lady, with which it’s not n... ... wore them in private, too, and slept with them round her neck; though the writer can pledge his word that this was a calumny. “If she were to take th...

...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friends...

...The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...ng A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania S... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...ted by Clara Bell and James Waring To the Reader AT THE VERY OUTSET of the writer’s literary career, a friend, long since dead, gave him the subject o... ...German almanac, and was omitted in the published editions of his collected works. The Comedie Humaine is sufficiently rich in original creations for t... ...oving women were interchang- ing sweet talk. The white marble of the noble works of art about them stood out against the red stucco walls, and made st...

...Excerpt: At the very outset of the writer?s literary career, a friend, long since dead, gave him the subject of this Study. Later on he found the same story in a collection published about the beginning of the present century. To the best of his belief, it is ...

...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...roduced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of those wishi... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. An Essay on Criticism By Alexander Pope ’Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in W... ... faintly, are drawn right. But as the slightest Sketch, if justly trac’d, Is by ill Colouring but the more disgrac’d, So by false Learning is good... ... and End, and Test of Art Art from that Fund each just Supply provides, Works without Show , and without Pomp presides: In some fair Body thus... ...e at once before your Eyes, Cavil you may, but never Criticize. Be Homer’s Works your Study, and Delight, Read them by Day, and meditate by Night,... ... Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be. In ev’ry Work regard the Writer’s End , Since none can compass more than they Intend; And if the ... ...which we thro’ Mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to Magnify. Some foreign Writers, some our own despise; The Ancients only, or the Moderns prize... ...ploy their Pains to spurn some others down; And while Self Love each jealous Writer rules, Contending Wits becomes the Sport of Fools : But still th...

...th A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Essay on Comedy by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Essay on Comedy by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing... ... is an equal opportunity university. 3 George Meredith An Essay on Comedy by George Meredith On the Idea of Comedy and of the Uses of the Comic Spiri... ...re sufficiently quick-witted and enlightened by education to welcome great works like Le Tartuffe, Les Femmes Savantes, and Le Misanthrope, works that... ...s foot and hair on the pointed tip of his ear. And how difficult it is for writers to disentangle themselves from bad traditions is no- ticeable when ... ...utwearied, about Life as a Comedy, and Com- edy as a jade, 4 when popular writers, conscious of fatigue in creativeness, desire to be cogent in a mod... ...nt is an admirable, almost a lovable heroine. It is a piece of genius in a writer to make a woman’s manner of speech portray her. You feel sensible of... ...te a comedy called Misogynes, said to have been the most celebrated of his works. This misogynist is a married man, according to the fragment survivin...

...Lyrical Ballads With Other Poems, 1800, Vol. I. By William Wordsworth LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES. Q... ...Classics Series Publication Lyrical Ballads with other poems, Volume One by William Wordsworth is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State Univers... ...ic transmission, in any way. Lyrical Ballads with other poems, Volume One by William Wordsworth , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...cknowl edge that this defect where it exists, is more dishonorable to the Writer’s own character than false refinement or arbitrary innovation, thoug... ...e this capability is one of the best ser vices in which, at any period, a Writer can be engaged; but this service, excellent at all times, is especia... ...cal exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves. The invalu able works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works 11 Wordsworth of S... ...the country have conformed themselves. The invalu able works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works 11 Wordsworth of Shakespeare and Milt... ... the blind association of pleasure which has been previously received from works of rhyme or metre of the same or similar con struction, all these im...

...e Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was published, as an experiment which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart....

...Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ... Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication ... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...entence he was dictating— “given in—Are you ready?” “Yes,” cried the three writers. It all went all together, the appeal, the gossip, and the con- spi... ...d the office of a bad customer. “It is the truth, monsieur. The chief only works at night. If your business is important, I recommend you to return at... ...to deliver to Delbecq the letter just written, and to bring it back to the writer as soon as he had read it. Then the Countess went out to sit on a be... ...ortunately , neither legislators, nor philanthropists, nor paint- ers, nor writers come to study. Like all the laboratories of the law, this ante-room...

...Excerpt: Colonel Chabert. ?Hullo! There is that old Box-coat again!? This exclamation was made by a lawyer?s clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumper--a messenger in fact--who at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to make into a bullet,...

...Droll Stories Volume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A P... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ... of whom there are not more than seven perfect in the great ocean of human writers, others, although friendly, have been of opinion that, at a time wh... ...d in black, as if in mourning for some- thing, it was necessary to concoct works either wearisomely serious or seriously wearisome; that a writer coul... ...to concoct works either wearisomely serious or seriously wearisome; that a writer could only live henceforward by enshrining his ideas in some vast ed... ...e a monument of perennity more assured than that of the most solidly built works. In the especial jurisprudence of wit and wisdom the custom is to ste... ...eign phrases, and Spanish jargon, introduced by foreigners, so that a poor writer has plenty of elbow room in this Babelish language, which has since ...