"A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew ever…"

"Splendid Things Chinese brocade. A sword with a decorated scabbard. The grain of the wood in a Buddhist statue. Long …"

"Things That Lose by Being Painted Pinks, cherry blossoms, yellow roses. Men or women who are praised in romances as b…"

"Sei Shonagon feels modern, almost a proto-feminist in such a paternalistic age that women at court stayed, for the mo…"

"It is a loose book, impressionistic, hardly coherent as a continuous narrative. It is full of descriptions of court l…"

"Besides the darkness of the night, many minor shadows cross our paths, making the hues of Life obscure. These are not…"

"Many argue that the is inhumane, that meat is expensive, that it contains uric acid, that it may be tubercular, and s…"

"Hallie Eustace Miles ... The daughter of the of , Hallie Killick married the sportsman and writer in 1906. Together w…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"