The Selfish Giant part 1
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Wilde was bom in Dublin in 1854, the son of distinguished parents. His mother, Lady Wilde, was famous for her volumes of Irish stories. Wilde went first to Trinity College, Dublin, and...
The Disabled Soldier Part 5
“The boatswain found me, as he said, an obstinate fellow: he swore he knew that I understood my business well, but that I shammed Abraham, to be idle; but God knows, I knew nothing...
The Disabled Soldier Part 4
We had but an indifferent passage, for being all confined in the hold, more than a hundred of our people died for want of sweet air; and those that remained were sickly enough, God...
The Disabled Soldier Part 3
I had some dis-position to be a scholar, and was resolved at least to know my letters: but the master of the workhouse put me to business as soon as I was able to...
The Disabled Soldier Part 2
With what indignation do I hear an Ovid, a Cicero or a Rabutin complain of their misfortunes and hardships, whose greatest calamity was that of being unable to visit a certain spot of earth,...
The Disabled Soldier Part 1
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)Goldsmith`s family were Irish people of English descent. Oliver Goldsmith was born in County Longford, Ireland. He went to Trinity College, Dublin, and after his graduation in 1749, began the study of...
The Shipwreck of Simonides 2
A lerned man has always a fund of riches in himself.Simonides, who wrote such excellent lyric poems, the more easily to support his poverty, began to make a tour of the celebrated cities of...
The Prodigal Son 2
Music and danceNow his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and asked...
The Jewish Mother 1
Biblical LiteratureIt is not surprising that the stories scattered so profusely through the Bible, the Apocrypha, and the Talmud, should be mostly moral tales. They were told in order to illustrate a theological or...
The History of Susanna 1
The History of Susanna (From The Apocrypha)Susanna was originally a part of the Book of Daniel, but was set apart as apocryphal, because it “was not in Hebrew.” It is none the less a...
