What is there in Paradise Lost to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.

Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for t…

As I was writing about Grace Marks, and about her interlude in the Asylum, I came to see her in context - the context of other people's opinions, both the popu…

The soul of Hogarth has migrated into the body of Dickens.

Le savant digne de ce nom, le geometre surtout, eprouve en face de son ?uvre la meme impression que l'artiste; sa jouissance est aussi grande et de meme nature.