"Robe of Peace"- O'Henry -Full Text
The Robe Of Peace
Mysteries follow one another so closely in a great city that the reading public and the friends of Johnny Bellchambers have ceased to marvel at his sudden and unexplained disappearance nearly a year ago. This particular mystery has now been cleared up, but the solution is so strange and incredible to the mind of the average man that only a select few who were in close touch with Bellchambers will give it full credence.
Johnny Bellchambers, as is well known, belonged to the intrinsically inner circle of the elite. Without any of the ostentation of the fashionable ones who endeavor to attract notice by eccentric display of wealth and show he still was au fait in everything that gave deserved lustre to his high position in the ranks of society.
Format of FORMAL LETTER
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Formal Letter Format
"On Shakespeare" ...by Ben Jonson
To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name,
Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such
As neither man nor Muse can praise too much.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I therefore will begin. Soul of the age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage!
My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
A little further to make thee a room:
Thou art alive still while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such
As neither man nor Muse can praise too much.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I therefore will begin. Soul of the age! The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage!
My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
A little further to make thee a room:
Thou art alive still while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read and praise to give.
On BEN JONSON and his outlook on Shakespeare
Jonson's elegy (a poem written to memorialize the dead), "To
the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Master William Shakespeare, and What he
Hath Left Us," was
first published in 1623 as part of the preface to Shakespeare's First
Folio, a space traditionally reserved for commemorative verses from
the author's greatest friends and admirers, and amounts to the only extended
commentary on Shakespeare issued by one of his contemporaries.
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