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THE GREAT ADVENTURE Spring comes slowly in England; winter entrenched and relaxing his dominion inch by inch, fighting as he goes with bitter blasts of snowy winds, sharp rains, and cruel seas beatin
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THE GREAT ADVENTURE Spring comes slowly in England; winter entrenched and relaxing his dominion inch by inch, fighting as he goes with bitter blasts of snowy winds, sharp rains, and cruel seas beatin
SUNSET The Immortals, the lesser gods, watch their prey at leisure and, one would say, with ironic amusement. The ange…
PARTING There is a most absolute and splendid justice in the remorseless sequence of cause and effect, and those who p…
FANNY It was a still Sunday afternoon with a November mist clinging like a cold breath to London, daylight still but t…
DESCENT That journey home, in spite of all the splendours which his own and Emma’s renown and the Queen’s company occa…
CIRCE There comes a moment in the fully unfolded maturity of beauty when any change must be for the worse. There is a …
THE MERIDIAN It appeared to Nelson in the anxious days coming on that Heaven itself had sent him the destined helper i…
THE GARDEN OF ARMIDA In those days every interest of Naples centred on the sea and the news it might bring. The French…
THE NILE As Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson sailed for Syracuse, many thoughts kept him company in striding up and down his…
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