A commonplace book of thoughts, memories, and fancies
Subtitle: original and selected.
Publisher: D. Appleton and Co.
Published: 1855
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: PART I.; title: ETHICS AND CHARACTER.; title: Ethical Fragments.; title: Vanity, 18; title: Truths and Truisms, 14; title: Beauty and Use, 14; title: What is Soul, 18; title: The Philosophy of Happiness, 19; title: Cheerfulness a Virtue, 21; title: Intellect and Sympathy, 21; title: Old Letters, 22; title: The Point of Honour, 28; title: Looking up, 28; title: Authors, 24; title: Thought and Theory, 24; title: Impulse and Consideration, 25; title: Principle and Expediency, 26; title: Personality of the Eyil Principle, 26; title: The Catholic Spirit, 28; title: Death-beds, 28; title: Thoughts on a Sermon, 29; title: Love and Fear of God, 30; title: Social Opinion, 31; title: Balzac, 31; title: Political, 31; title: Celibacy, 32; title: Landor's Wise Sayings, 33; title: Justice and Generosity, 35; title: Roman Catholic Converts, 35; title: Stealing and Borrowing, 35; title: Good and Bad, 36; title: Italian Proverb. Greek Saying, 36; title: Silent Grief, 37; title: Past and Future, 37; title: Suicide. Countenance, 38; title: Progress and Progression,; title: Happiness in Suffering, 40; title: Life in the Future, 41; title: Strength. Youth, 42; title: Moral Suffering, 43; title: The Secret of Peace, 44; title: Motives and Impulses, 45; title: Principle and Passion, Dominant Ideas, 46; title: Absence and Death, 47; title: Sydney Smith. Theodore Hook, 48; title: Werther and Childe Harold, 51; title: Money Obligations, 53; title: Charity, 54; title: Truth, 55; title: Women. Men, 55; title: Compensation for Sorrow, 56; title: Religion. Avarice, 57; title: Genius, 57; title: Mind, 58; title: Hieroglyphical Colours, 58; title: Character, 59; title: Value of Words, 60; title: Nature and Art, 61; title: Spirit and Form, 64; title: Penal Retribution, 64; title: The Church, 66; title: Woman's Patriotism, 66; title: Doubt, 66; title: Curiosity, 67; title: Tieck. Coleridge, 67; title: Application of a Bon Mot of Talleyrand, 68; title: Adverse Individualities, 69; title: Conflict in Love, 70; title: French Expressions, 71; title: Practical and Contemplative Life, 72; title: Joanna Baillie. Macaulay's Ballads, 78; title: Cunning, 74; title: Browning's Paracelsus, 74; title: Men, Women, and Children, 77; title: Letters, 91; title: Madame de Stael, 91; title: Deft, 98; title: Thought too free, 94; title: Good Qualities, not Virtues, 96; title: Sense and Fantasy, 96; title: Use the Present, 96; title: Facts, 97; title: Wise Sayings, 98; title: Pestilence of Falsehood, 99; title: Signs instead of Words, 100; title: Relations with the World, 101; title: Milton's Adam and Eve, 102; title: Thoughts, sundry, 103; title: A Revelation of Childhood, 104; title: The Indian Hunter and the Fire ; an Allegory, 132; title: Poetical Fragments, 135; title: THEOLOGICAL; title: The Hermit and the Minstrel, 139; title: Pandemonium, 142; title: Southey on the Religious Orders, 145; title: Forms in Religion — Image Worship, 146; title: Religious Differences, 148; title: Expansive Christianity, 151; title: NOTES FROM VARIOUS SERMONS : —; title: A Roman Catholic Sermon, 154; title: Another, 167; title: Church of England Sermon, 159; title: Another, 162; title: Dissenting Sermon, 167; title: Father Taylor of Boston, 168; title: PART II.; title: LITERATURE AND ART.; title: Notes from Books : —; title: Dr. Arnold, 176; title: Niebuhr, 197; title: Lord Bacon, 205; title: Chateaubriand, 215; title: Bishop Cumberland, 221; title: Comte's Philosophy, 224; title: Goethe, 234; title: Hazlitt's "Liber Amoris," 236; title: Francis Horner, "The Nightingale," 239; title: Thackeray's "English Humourists," 242; title: Notes on Art : —; title: Analogies, 248; title: Definition of Art, 260; title: No Patriotic Art, 251; title: Verse and Colour, 251; title: Dutch Pictures, 252; title: Morals in Art, 253; title: Physiognomy of Hands, 258; title: Mozart and Chopin, 259; title: Music, 262; title: Rachel, the Actress, 263; title: English and German Actresses, 266; title: Character of Imogen, 271; title: Shakspeare Club, 272; title: "Maria Maddalena," 278; title: The Artistic Nature, 274; title: Woman's Criticism, 276; title: Artistic Influences, 277; title: The Greek Aphrodite, 278; title: Love, in the Greek Tragedy, 278; title: Wilkie's Life and Letters, 279; title: Wilhelm Schadow, 283; title: Artist Life, 286; title: Materialism in Art, 288; title: A Fragment on Sculpture, and on certain Characters in History and Poetry, considered as Subjects for Modern Art, 290; title: Helen of Troy, 295; title: Penelope—Laodamia, 299; title: Hippolytus, 302; title: Iphigenia, 305; title: Eve, 309; title: Adam, 311; title: Angels, 312; title: Miriam — Ruth, 316; title: Christ — Solomon — David, 315; title: Hagar — Rebecca — Rachel — Queen of Sheba, 316; title: Lady Godiva, 317; title: Joan of Arc, 319; title: Characters from Shakspeare, 328; title: Characters from Spenser, 324; title: From Milton. The Lady — Comus — Satan, 326; title: From the Italian and Modern Poets, 328