Nothing to Do A Tilt at Our Best Society
()
About this ebook
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Horatio Alger Jr. ; January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
Read more from Horatio Alger, Jr.
From Canal Boy to President: Or, The boyhood and manhood of James A. Garfield Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ragged Dick: Streetlife In New York With The Boot-Blacks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTry and Trust: Abner Holdens Bound Boy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Centaur Collection of 50 Literary Masterpieces (Centaur Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHoratio Alger Jr: The Complete Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRagged Dick; Or, Street Life in New York Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Grit: Or The Young Boatman of Pine Point Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPaul The Peddler Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tattered Tom: The Story of a Street Arab Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrank's Campaign The Farm and the Camp Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Young Explorer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAndy Grant's Pluck Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Do and Dare: A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFame and Fortune: Or, The Progress of Richard Hunter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mark Mason's Victory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Phil The Fiddler Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mark the Match Boy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJack's Ward Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Facing the World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPhil, The Fiddler Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Backwoods Boy Or The Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham Lincoln Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPaul the Peddler Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Brave and Bold Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cash Boy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In a New World: Among the Gold-Fields of Australia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOnly An Irish Boy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Driven from Home Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShifting For Himself: or Gilbert Greyson's Fortunes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHerbert Carter's Legacy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bob Burton: Or The Young Ranchman of the Missouri Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Nothing to Do A Tilt at Our Best Society
Related ebooks
Nothing to Do - A Tilt at Our Best Society Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scarlet Letter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction Vol: 10 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scarlet Letter (Dream Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRed Cotton Night-Cap Country or, Turf and Towers: "I want to be forgotten even by God" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Minstrel: A Collection of Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scarlet Letter - Original February 1850 Uncensored Version Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scarlet Letter (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #39] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Three Musketeers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scarlet Letter (Diversion Classics) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Henry Smeaton: A Jacobite Story of the Reign of George the First Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrilby Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFanny, with Other Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDelaware; or, The Ruined Family. Vol.1,2 And 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scarlet Letter (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scarlet Letter (ArcadianPress Edition) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scarlet Letter (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDon Juan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRed as a Rose is She: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsForest Days: A Romance of Old Times Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scarlet Letter (ReadOn Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRomola Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlexandre Dumas: The Complete D'Artagnan Novels (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scarlet Letter: New Revised Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Miscellany of Poems by G. K. Chesterton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scarlet Letter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
General Fiction For You
The Terminal List: A Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Ends with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unhoneymooners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nettle & Bone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Sister's Keeper: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Candy House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beartown: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rebecca Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beyond Good and Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The City of Dreaming Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shantaram: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Second Life of Mirielle West: A Haunting Historical Novel Perfect for Book Clubs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Everything's Fine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dry: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Nothing to Do A Tilt at Our Best Society
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Nothing to Do A Tilt at Our Best Society - Horatio Alger, Jr.
NOTHING TO DO.
A Tilt at Our Best Society
To
WILLIAM A. BUTLER, Esq.,
AUTHOR OF
NOTHING TO WEAR,
This Poem
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.
Nothing to Do.
Augustus Fitz-Herbert, as all are aware,
Having crossed the Atlantic, and got a moustache on,
Likewise being son of a known millionaire,
Stands of course on the very top round of the fashion.
Being taught to consider himself, from his birth,
As one of the privileged ones of the earth,
He cherishes deep and befitting disdain
For those who don't live in the Fifth Avenue,
As entirely unworthy the notice or thought
Of the heir of two millions and nothing to do.
He calls them canaille, which I'm credibly told
Is the