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They ordered punch. They drank it. It was hot rum punch. The pen falters when it attempts to treat of....

One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary....

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

-But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to....

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the....

[W]e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running....

The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more....

Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.....

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least....