Classicly Books
An Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal Life
Henry CurtisSome physiologists, and those of no mean note, have considered the operations of the human frame as a circle of functions governed by mechanical organic laws, as we discover in an hydraulic machine, o..
The Young Continentals at Lexington
John T. McIntyre“The Young Continentals at Lexington” begins with that vital period of our country’s history when the great forces that made the Revolution were slowly coming together. The second book of the ser..
A poem on the earthquake at Lisbon
AnonymousHorror and Desolation you’d no more!And now that once fair Town with all her Store,And ev’ry Soul that hail’d the rising Day,Heaving in Death like one vast Body lay.The Fires, that glimm’ring still wi..
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 108, Vol. III, January 23, 1886
Chambers' JournalThe thought disheartens me for a moment, as I stand here, lashing away, middle-deep in the stream. But it is only for a moment. The wind is soft; the air is bright, but not too bright, with sunshine; ..
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 109, Vol. III, January 30, 1886
Chambers' JournalWe have hitherto spoken of that perfect mastery of our language in writing which has been the possession of those famous in the history of English letters, and it may be inquired if such a high standa..
The man with the hoe, and other poems
Edwin MarkhamThe man with the hoe, and other poems is a poetry collection by Edwin Markham. The collection includes the belowA MeetingInfinite DepthsA Leaf from the Devil’s Jest-BookThe PaymasterThe Last Furr..
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 110, Vol. III, February 6, 1886
Chambers' JournalGo from the rich to the poor among our gentry—from the gilded upper stratum to the lower base and barren subsoil—and here again we find that mistresses are as much to blame as the maids, whose shortco..
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 111, Vol. III, February 13, 1886
Chambers' JournalThe reasons why that period is envied seem to be these: First, and most subtly underlying all envy of childhood, is the knowledge that it is the time when we have our whole life before us. Often it is..