Lined with lindens of medium size with hanging droplets of rain distributed among their intricate black twigs according to the fut...ure arrangement of leaves (tomorrow each drop would contain a green pupil); complete with a smooth tarred surface some thirty feet across and variegated sidewalks (hand-built, and flattering to the feet), it rose at a barely perceptible angle, beginning with a post office and ending with a church, like an epistolary novel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is an optician, daily having to do with the microscope, telescope, and other inventions for sharpening our natural sight, thus ...enabling us mortals (as I once heard an eccentric put it) liberally to enlarge the field of our original and essential ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events unde...cided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »