Word: tales
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...notice in a practical, and therefore very forcible way. The monopoly value that some of these pamphlets get in the hands of our very respectable, as well as very mercenary Cambridge stationers, is nothing short of being mirabile dictu. By magic, like the transformations in a fairy-tale, a few printed sheets, worth (with an allowance for a very respectable profit). about ten, fifteen, or even twenty-five cents, expand in value, or rather in price, to fifty cents, seventy-five cents, and upward. Of course the only cause of this expansion is a very natural one, namely, the heat...
...swayed and tormented by great passions. Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means so simple a matter as analysis would seem to show. And so it is with an added pleasure that we find here a tale whose very remoteness has a distinct charm in that it brings before us moods and motives as far removed from our everyday lives as is darkness from light...
...alone can bestow. So now I recline upon it with my back against a cushion, while I smoke a pipe and think of the many personal associations I have had with this old settler. If it had but a tongue as serviceable as its stout old legs, what a tale it could tell. To me, the first recollection that it brings is of my grandfather. How well I remember the tall, spare old gentleman, as he sat in one corner of it reading the morning paper and glancing up over his spectacles every moment or so to see that young...
MARCH 23. MONDAY.English Readings. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Man of Lawes Tale. Mr. Briggs. Sever...
MARCH 16. MONDAY.English Readings. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Nonne Prestes Tale. Mr. Briggs. Sever...