Essays and Dialogues


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"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we would their bodies with hasheesh. Such melancholy as his clothed in such eloquent words may be the luxury of the idle; it is poison to those who have work to do in the world. It shuts out hope, the very spring of energy; it makes the cheerful steady pursuit of duty a thing utterly beyond human powers. For we can none of us stand alone. Either in human or divine love we must find the mainspring of all life worth living. There must be something outside of ourselves which we regard not with despair, but with hope." -- Handwritten dedication in the book, dated Feb. 19th, 1883 (7 hr 54 min)

Chapitres

Biographical Sketch, part 1 26:37 Lu par Mary J
Biographical Sketch, part 2 23:24 Lu par Mary J
History of the Human Race 27:39 Lu par Jia Jia Yong
Dialogue between Hercules and Atlas 6:55 Lu par chocmuse
Dialogue between Fashion and Death 6:29 Lu par Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
Price Competition Announced by the Academy of Sillographs 10:47 Lu par Crln Yldz Ksr
Dialogue between a Goblin and a Gnome 7:46 Lu par Peter Tucker
Dialogue between Malambruno and Farfarello 6:55 Lu par Zeeshan Reshamwala
Dialogue between Nature and a Soul 6:50 Lu par Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
Dialogue between the Earth and the Moon 14:17 Lu par Availle
The Wager of Prometheus 23:24 Lu par Linda Dodge
Dialogue between a Natural Philosopher and a Metaphysician 10:50 Lu par Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
Dialogue between Tasso and his Familiar Spirit 12:59 Lu par Rapunzelina
Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander 14:34 Lu par Rapunzelina
Parini on Glory, Chapters I-III 14:19 Lu par Mary J
Parini on Glory, Chapters IV-VI 12:32 Lu par Mary J
Parini on Glory, Chapters VII-IX 14:20 Lu par Mary J
Parini on Glory, Chapters X-XII 8:37 Lu par Mary J
Dialogue between Frederic Ruysch and his Mummies 14:00 Lu par ToddHW
Remarkable Sayings of Philip Ottonieri, Chapters I-III 23:13 Lu par Peter Tucker
Remarkable Sayings of Philip Ottonieri, Chapters IV-VII 23:59 Lu par Peter Tucker
Dialogue between Christopher Columbus and Pietro Gutierrez 11:19 Lu par Zeeshan Reshamwala
Panegyric of Birds 15:03 Lu par Eric Metzler
The Song of the Wild Cock 10:31 Lu par Eric Metzler
Dialogue between Timandro and Eleandro 17:39 Lu par Rapunzelina
Copernicus, Scene I 8:58 Lu par Julia Niedermaier
Copernicus, Scene II 1:39 Lu par Mary J
Copernicus, Scene III 2:22 Lu par Rapunzelina
Copernicus, Scene IV 9:38 Lu par Mary J
Dialogue between an Almanac Seller and a Passer-by 4:40 Lu par Zeeshan Reshamwala
Dialogue between Plotinus and Porphyrius 36:56 Lu par Linda Dodge
Comparison of the Last Words of Marcus Brutus and Theophrastus 19:37 Lu par Eric Metzler
Dialogue between Tristano and a Friend 25:54 Lu par Linda Dodge