The first and second series of Tupper’s moral meditations, written in long unrhymed lines in the manner of the Book of Proverbs. Short sections treat anticipation, hidden uses, compensation, indirect influences and truth in things false, offering earnest counsel on bearing life’s burdens, keeping hope and doing good.
Enormously popular with Victorian readers and later mocked as a byword for platitude, it is a revealing document of the age’s moral tastes. Download the free EPUB.