Under these baffling conditions there is no thorough discussion of the world outlook whatever, anywhere. The new world order by H.G. Wells I interpret the "world" outlook as "world state". Am I right? Or what does the author mean by it? My other question is, what does "whatever" mean here?

Play: The Merchant of Venice Author: William Shakespeare

In a 1907 letter to Walt Whitman’s biographer Bliss Perry, Edmund Gosse wrote: I came across your really delightful volume on Walt Whitman,† and read it with such pleasure that I had to review it also, to try and share my pleasure with others. But I don’t believe in those “children”! For reasons...

I am looking for the source of the quote "We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves", allegedly by F. de La Rochefoucauld. The only French version I could find "Nous sommes plus intéressés à faire croire que nous sommes heureux qu’à essayer ...

This passage is from The Children's Bach by Helen Garner He would have liked to move around her house and examine all its icons, or to hang over the front windowsill with her and make remarks about the dress and gait of passing pedestrians; but he wanted also to get her outside and on to his own ...

I'm writing an article about cycling and I want to include a well know quote from the professional cyclist Greg LeMond (the first American to win the Tour de France). The quote is: The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push your...

I am not actually sure if this is a story I have watched, or read, or both. Certainly I have watched it cause I have pictures on my mind. Anyway, the plot is: The wife is (I guess) abused by her husband. One day when he came back from work, he brought a meat (I don't remember what specifically) a...

I'm writing an article about cycling and I want to include a well know quote from the professional cyclist Greg LeMond (the first American to win the Tour de France). The quote is: It never gets easier; you just go faster. This quote is all over the Internet, but I'm having trouble finding the...

In Chapter 2 of his novel Pantagruel François Rabelais writes (quoted from the edition on Wikisource) Le philosophe racompte en mouvant la question, pourquoy cest que leau de la mer est sallee ? quau temps que Phebus bailla le gouvernement de son chariot lucificque à son fils Phaeton : Ledict Ph...

This excerpt is from Five Children and It, Chapter 2. “She’s not mad; it’s true,” said Anthea; “there is a fairy. If I ever see him again I’ll wish for something for you; at least I would if vengeance wasn’t wicked—so there!” “Lor’ lumme,” said Billy Peasemarsh, “if there ain’t another on ’em!” ...

I'm looking for an elegy-style poem in which the narrator recounts ignoring the beautiful flowers around them, instead attending to a single flower that had yet to bloom. They thought this one flower would grow to become more spectacular than the rest, but it instead shriveled and died, causing t...