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• Apr 1 A Mind Calm and Full William Hazlitt, Table Talk; or, Original Essays ('On the Pleasure of Painting') There is a pleasure in painting which none but painters know. In writing, you have to contend with t...
• Mar 17 The Silent Grass-Growing Mood Herman Melville, Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, June 1851 In a week or so, I go to New York, to bury myself in a third-story room, and work and slave on my "W...
• Feb 22 The Hope of Pleasure in the Work Itself William Morris, Useful Work versus Useless Toil The hope of pleasure in the work itself: how strange that hope must seem to some of my readers—to mo...
• Feb 6 What the Scythe Whispers Robert Frost, A Boy's Will There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
• Jan 16 The Liberty of the Workman John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice Go forth again to gaze upon the old cathedral front, where you have smiled so often at the fantastic...