Category: Paragraph Writing
Poetic Inspiration How does a poet get his poems? Or, rather, how do poems come into the mind of the poet? That is not an easy question to answer. …
Work is Worship Essay # 1 We sometimes think it would be very nice to have no work to do. If only we had not to go to school …
Genius and Talent Our English word “talent” has a curious history. It comes from a Greek word, adopted into Latin, meaning, first, a certain weight, and then a certain …
Our Sweetest Songs are those that tell of saddest thought This is a line from Shelley’s well-known poem, “To a Skylark”. Perhaps Indian students cannot know what the cheery …
Luck Essay # 1 We commonly speak of good luck and bad luck, and talk of people being lucky or unlucky, and of things happening by pure chance. Yet …
Reading Newspapers Nowadays, when all are more or less educated, almost everybody reads some daily paper or other. A man who never reads a newspaper cannot keep in touch …
Ambition The general view of ambition is expressed in the words which Shakespeare put into the mouth of the ambitious but fallen Wolsey to his ambitious and rising successor …
Aseptic Surgery It is no exaggeration to say that Lord Lister. the great English surgeon, has saved millions of lives. Without his wonderful discoveries, many of the operations performed …
Do Writers Write for Money? Every man who embarks on the perilous profession of writing has to prepare himself for a punishing job. But, if he is honest, he …
The Cinema as a Rival of the Stage The cinema is now a very popular form of entertainment, and even the smallest town has now its “picture-house”. In the …
