The Broken Heart

Middleton* It is a common practice with those who have outlived the susceptibility of early feeling, or...

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

Castle of Indolence* In the bosom of one of those spacious...

The Pride of The Village

Herrick* In. the course of an...

London Antiques

Fletcher* I Am somewhat of an antiquity hunter, and...

Christmas Eve

Cartwright* It...

The Boar’s Head Tavern, Eastcheap

A tavern is the rendezvous, the exchange, the staple of good fellows. I have heard my great-grandfather tell, how his great-great-grandfather should say, that it was an old proverb when his great-grandfather was a child, that ‘it was a good wind that blew a man...

Traits of Indian Character

I appeal to any white man if ever he entered Logan’s cabin hungry, and he gave him not to eat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. Speech of an Indian Chief* There is something in the character...

The Author’s Account of Himself

I am of this mind with Homer, that as the snaile that crept out of her shel was turned eftsoons into a toad, and thereby was forced to make a stoole to sit on; so the traveller that stragleth from his owne country is in...

The Inn Kitchen

Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? Falstaff* During a journey that I once made through the Netherlands, I had arrived one evening at the Pomme d’Or* the principal inn of a small Flemish village. It was after...