“The Book-Worms” by Robert Burns
A Young Girl Reading, by Jean Honoré Fragonard Through and through the inspir’d leaves, Ye maggots, make your windings; But oh! respect his lordship’s taste, And spare his golden bindings.… Read More...
View Article“Breathes There A Man (from The Lay Of The Last Minstrel)”, by Sir Walter Scott
Robert the Bruce reviewing His Troops Before the Battle of Bannockburn, by Edmund Blair Leighton Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, “This is my own, my native...
View Article“The Violet” by Sir Walter Scott
Violets, by Ștefan Luchian The violet in her greenwood bower, Where birchen boughs with hazel mingle, May boast itself the fairest flower In glen, or copse, or forest dingle. Though fair her gems of...
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