alp's

Updated: May 29, 2025

"Freda," said I to my friend after tea, when she and I were sitting comfortably by the fire in the library, "do you know anything about the old yellow-gray house up on the hill?" "Why, what of it?" "Nothing, only I went into it to-day. What is its history?" "Nothing particular. It was built for a Doctor Haywood. Have you read Alp's last essay on the Semi-occasional?" "Yes, and great stuff it is."

- Not Pretty, but Precious

Even Byron, whom a more brilliant era of genius seemed to have decided to be but an indifferent poet, had ventured to affirm that "The Alp's snow summit nearer heaven is seen Than the volcano's fierce eruptive crest;" with other verses, to the effect that words are but a "temporary torturing flame"; of which no one knew more than himself. The evidence of the poets could not be more emphatic:

Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams