| | Author: | Kobayashi, Issa | Add | | | Title: | Ora ga Haru  | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 昔たんごの國普甲寺といふ所に、深く淨土を願ふ上人ありけり。としの始は世間祝ひ
事してざゞめけば、我もせん迚、大卅日の夜、ひとりつかふ小法師に手紙したゝめ渡
して、翌の曉にしか％＼せよと、きといひをしへて、本堂へとまりにやりぬ。小法師
は元日の旦、いまだ隅々は小闇きに、初鳥の聲とおなじくがばと起て、教へのごとく
表門を丁々と敲けば、内よりいづこよりと問ふ時、西方彌陀佛より年始の使僧に候と
答ふるよりはやく、上人裸足にておどり出て、門の扉を左右へさつと開て、小法師を
上坐に稱して、きのふの手紙をとりて、うや／＼しくいたゞきて讀でいはく、其世界
は衆苦充滿に候間はやく吾國に來たるべし、聖衆出むかひしてまち入候とよみ終りて、
おゝ／＼と泣れけるとかや。此上人みづから工み拵へたる悲しみに、みづからなげき
つゝ、初春の淨衣を絞りて、したゝる泪を見て祝ふとは、物に狂ふさまながら、俗人
に對して無情を演るを禮とすると聞からに、佛門においては、いはひの骨張なるべけ
れ。それとはいさゝか替りて、おのれらは俗塵に埋れて世渡る境界ながら、鶴龜にた
ぐへての祝盡しも、厄拂ひの口上めきてそら％＼しく思ふからに、から風の吹けばと
ぶ屑家は、くづ屋のあるべきやうに、門松立てず、煤はかず、雪の山路の曲り形りに、
ことしの春もあなた任せになんむかへける | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Koda, Rohan | Add | | | Title: | Goju no to | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 木理美しき槻胴、縁にはわざと赤樫を用ひたる岩疊作りの長火鉢に對ひて話し
敵もなく唯一人、少しは淋しさうに坐り居る三十前後の女、男のやうに立派な眉を何
日掃ひしか剃つたる痕の青々と、見る眼も覺むべき雨後の山の色を留めて翠の匂ひ一
トしほ床しく、鼻筋つんと通り目尻キリヽと上り、洗ひ髮をぐる／＼と酷く丸めて引
裂紙をあしらひに一本簪でぐいと留めを刺した色氣無の樣はつくれど、憎いほど烏黒
にて艷ある髮の毛の一ト綜二綜後れ亂れて、淺黒いながら澁氣の拔けたる顏にかゝれ
る趣きは、年増嫌ひでも褒めずには置かれまじき風體、我がものならば着せてやりた
い好みのあるにと好色漢が隨分頼まれもせぬ詮議を蔭では爲べきに、さりとは外見を
捨てて堅義を自慢にした身の裝り方、柄の選擇こそ野暮ならね、高が二子の綿入れに
繻子襟かけたを着て、何處に紅くさいところもなく、引つ掛けたねんねこばか
りは往時何なりしやら疎い縞の絲織なれど、此とて幾度か水
を潛つて來た奴なるべし。今しも臺所にては下婢が器物洗ふ音ばかりして家内靜かに、
他には人ある樣子もなく、何心なくいたづらに黒文字を舌端で嬲り躍らせなどして居
し女、ぷつりと其を囓み切つてぷいと吹き飛ばし、火鉢の灰かきならし炭火體よく埋
け、芋籠より小巾とり出し、銀ほど光れる長五徳を磨き、おとしを拭き、銅壺の蓋ま
で綺麗にして、さて南部霰地の大鐵瓶を正然かけし後、石尊樣詣りのついでに箱根へ
寄つて來しものが姉御へ御土産と呉れたらしき寄木細工の小纖麗なる煙草箱を右の手
に持た鼈甲管の煙管で引き寄せ、長閑に一服吹うて線香の烟るやうに緩々と烟りを噴
き出し、思はず知らず太息吐いて。多分は良人の手に入るであらうが、憎いのつそり
めが對うへ廻り、去年使うてやつた恩も忘れ、上人樣に胡麻摺り込んで、強て此度の
仕事を爲うと身の分も知らずに願ひを上げたとやら、清吉の話しでは、上人樣に依怙
贔屓の御情はあつても名さへ響かぬのつそりに大切の仕事を
任せらるゝ事は、檀家方の手前寄進者方の手前も難しからうなれば大丈夫此方に命け
らるゝに極つたこと、よしまたのつそりに命けらるればとて彼奴に出來る仕事でもな
く、彼奴の下に立つて働く者もあるまいなれば見事出來し損ずるは眼に見えたことと
のよしなれど、早く良人が愈々御用命かつたと笑ひ顏して歸つて來られゝばよい、
類
の少い仕事だけに、是非爲て見たい受け合つて見たい、慾徳は何でも關はぬ、谷中感
應寺の五重塔は川越の源太が作り居つた、嗚呼よく出來した感心なと云はれて見たい
と面白がつて、何日になく職業に氣のはずみを打つて居らるゝに、若し此仕事を他に
奪られたら何のやうに腹を立てらるるか癇癪を起さるゝか知れず、それも道理であつ
て見れば傍から妾の慰めやうも無い譯、嗚呼何にせよ目出度う早く歸つて來られゝば
よいと、口には出さねど女房氣質、今朝背面から我が縫ひし羽織打ち掛け着せて出し
たる男の上を氣遣ふところへ表の骨太格子手あらく開けて。姉御、兄貴は、なに感應
寺へ、仕方が無い、それでは姉御に、濟みませんが御頼み申します、つい昨晩醉まし
てし後は云はず異な手つきをして話せば、眉頭に皺をよせて笑ひながら。仕方
のないも無いもの、少し締まるがよいと、云ひ云ひ立つて幾
干かの金を渡せば其をもつて門口に出で、何やら諄々押問答せし末此方に來りて、拳
骨で額を抑へ。何も濟みませんでした、ありがたうござりますと無骨な禮を爲たるも
可笑。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Kuki, Shuzo | Add | | | Title: | Iki no kozo | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 「いき」といふ現象は如何なる構造をもつてゐるか。先づ我々は如何なる方法によつて「いき」の構造を闡明し、「いき」の存在を把握することが出來るであらうか。「いき」が一の意味を構成してゐることは云ふまでもない。また「いき」が言語として成立してゐることも事實である。しからば「いき」といふ語は各國語のうちに見出されるといふ普遍性を備へたものであらうか。我我は先づそれを調べて見なければならない。さうして、もし「いき」といふ語がわが國語にのみ存するものであるとしたならば、「いき」は特殊の民族性を持つた意味であることになる。然らば特殊な民族性をもつた意味、即ち特殊の文化存在は如何なる方法論的態度をもつて取扱はるべきものであらうか。「いき」の構造を明かにする前に我々はこれらの先決問題に答へなければならぬ。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Kunikida, Doppo | Add | | | Title: | E no kanashimi | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: |
畫
(
ゑ
)
を
好
(
す
)
かぬ
小供
(
こども
)
は
先
(
ま
)
づ
少
(
すく
)
ないとして
其中
(
そのうち
)
にも
自分
(
じぶん
)
は
小供
(
こども
)
の
時
(
とき
)
、
何
(
なに
)
よりも
畫
(
ゑ
)
が
好
(
す
)
きであつた。（と
岡本某
(
をかもとぼう
)
が
語
(
かた
)
りだした）。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Kunikida, Doppo | Add | | | Title: | Gogai | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | ぼろ洋服を着た男爵
加藤
(
かとう
)
が、今夜もホールに現われている。彼は多少キじるし[1]だとの評がホールの仲間にあるけれども、おそらくホールの御連中にキ[2]的傾向を持っていないかたはあるまいと思われる。かく言う自分もさよう、同類と信じているのである。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Kunikida, Doppo | Add | | | Title: | Kyushi | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 九段坂の
最寄
(
もより
)
にけち
なめし屋がある。春の末の夕暮れに
一人
(
ひとり
)
の男が大儀そうに敷居をまたげた。すでに三人の客がある。まだランプをつけないので薄暗い土間に居並ぶ人影もおぼろである。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Kelly, Myra, 1876-1910 | Add | | | Title: | A Christmas Present for a Lady | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It was the week before Christmas, and the First Reader Class, in a lower
East Side school, had, almost to a man, decided on the gifts to be lavished
on "Teacher." She was quite unprepared for any such observance on the part
of her small adherents, for her first study of the roll book had shown her
that its numerous Jacobs, Isidores, and Rachels belonged to a class to which
Christmas Day was much as other days. And so she went serenely on her way,
all unconscious of the swift and strict relation between her manner and her
chances. She was, for instance, the only person in the room who did not know
that her criticism of Isidore Belchatosky's hands and face cost her a tall
"three for ten cents" candlestick and a plump box of candy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Key, Ellen | Add | | | Title: | The Education of the Child | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | GOETHE showed long ago in his Werther a
clear understanding of the significance of
individualistic and psychological training, an
appreciation which will mark the century of
the child. In this work he shows how the future
power of will lies hidden in the characteristics
of the child, and how along with every
fault of the child an uncorrupted germ capable
of producing good is enclosed. "Always,"
he says, "I repeat the golden words of the
teacher of mankind, `if ye do not become as
one of these,' and now, good friend, those who
are our equals, whom we should look upon as
our models, we treat as subjects; they should
have no will of their own; do we have none?
Where is our prerogative? Does it consist in
the fact that we are older and more
experienced? Good God of Heaven! Thou seest
old and young children, nothing else. And in
whom Thou hast more joy, Thy Son announced
ages ago. But people believe in Him and do
not hear Him—that, too, is an old trouble,
and they model their children after themselves."
The same criticism might be applied to our
present educators, who constantly have on
their tongues such words as evolution, individuality,
and natural tendencies, but do not
heed the new commandments in which they say
they believe. They continue to educate as if
they believed still in the natural depravity of
man, in original sin, which may be bridled,
tamed, suppressed, but not changed. The new
belief is really equivalent to Goethe's thoughts
given above, i.e., that almost every fault is but
a hard shell enclosing the germ of virtue.
Even men of modern times still follow in education
the old rule of medicine, that evil must
be driven out by evil, instead of the new
method, the system of allowing nature quietly
and slowly to help itself, taking care only
that the surrounding conditions help the work
of nature. This is education. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946 | Add | | | Title: | The economic consequences of the peace | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a
marked characteristic of mankind. Very few of us realise with
conviction the intensely unusual, unstable, complicated,
unreliable, temporary nature of the economic organisation by
which Western Europe has lived for the last half century. We
assume some of the most peculiar and temporary of our late
advantages as natural, permanent, and to be depended on, and we
lay our plans accordingly. On this sandy and false foundation we
scheme for social improvement and dress our political platforms,
pursue our animosities and particular ambitions, and feel
ourselves with enough margin in hand to foster, not assuage,
civil conflict in the European family. Moved by insane delusion
and reckless self-regard, the German people overturned the
foundations on which we all lived and built. But the spokesmen of
the French and British peoples have run the risk of completing
the ruin which Germany began, by a peace which, if it is carried
into effect, must impair yet further, when it might have
restored, the delicate, complicated organisation, already shaken
and broken by war, through which alone the European peoples can
employ themselves and live. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | King, Captain Charles | Add | | | Title: | Custer's Last Battle | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT is hard to say how many years ago the Dakotas of the upper
Mississippi, after a century of warring with the Chippewa nation,
began to swarm across the Missouri in search of the buffalo, and
there became embroiled with other tribes claiming the country
farther west. Dakota was the proper tribal name, but as they
crossed this Northwestern Rubicon into the territory of unknown
foemen they bore with them a title given them as far east as the
banks and bluffs of the Father of Waters. The Chippewas had called
them for years "the Sioux" (Soo), and by that strange un-Indian-sounding title is known to this day the most numerous and powerful
nation of red people—warriors, women, and children—to be found on
our continent. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Kane, Eliza | Add | | | Title: | Letter inviting Mrs. Brown and Miss Linn to tea, n.d. | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | Permit me to request the favor of
Mrs. Brown & Miss Linn's company
to tea this evening. I expect Mrs.
Bayard and the addition of your
society will contribute much to
the happiness of your friend. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Knowes, Edward C. | Add | | | Title: | Letter to Mrs. Fannie Grimes, March 2, 1871 [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Description: | The sisters of one Henry. R. Brooks, deceased Pvt of Company
"G"
23d
U.S. Colored Troops having made a Claim
against the U.S. Government for the Bounty &c
due the above named soldier, it is necessary
for the claimants to furnish evidence of two persons
who write showing that the said soldier left
surviving him no widow, child, or children,
father, mother, brother, or sister other than the
applicants,=Julia Washington, Luberta and
Jane Brooks,=and that said named sisters
and the deceased soldier were children of the
same mother | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Kayden, Eugene M. | Add | | | Title: | Leonid Andreyev: 1871-1919 | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | BETWEEN THE TWO REVOLUTIONS of 1905 and 1917
Leonid Andreyev was without a doubt the foremost writer in
Russia. His name was always spoken with veneration, in
mysterious whispers, as a grim portentous magician who descended
into the ultimate depths of the nether side of life and fathomed the
beauty and tragedy of the struggle. Leonid Nickolayevitch was born
in the province of Oryol, in 1871, and studied law at the University
of Moscow. Those were days of suffering and starvation; he gazed
into the abyss of sorrow and despair. In January 1894 he made an
unsuccessful attempt to kill himself by shooting, and then was
forced by the authorities to severe penitence, which augmented the
natural morbidness of his temperament. As a lawyer his career was
short-lived, and he soon abandoned it for literature, beginning as a
police-court reporter on the Moscow Courier. In 1902 he published
the short story In the Fog, which for the first time brought him
universal recognition. He was imprisoned during the revolution of
1905, together with Maxim Gorky, on political charges. Such are
the few significant details of his personal life, for the true Andreyev
is entirely in his stories and plays. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943. | Add | | | Title: | Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LIFE, in its great diversity of forms, has ever been
a subject of the deepest interest to rational beings.
Poets have sung of its joys and sorrows, its brilliant
phantasies and harsh realities. Philosophers
have spent their lives in vain attempts to solve its
mysteries; and some have believed that life was nothing
more than a stupendous farce, a delusion of the senses.
Moralists have sought to impress men with the truth
that "life is real," and teeming with grave responsibilities.
Physiologists have busied themselves in observing
the phenomena of life, and learning therefrom its
laws. The subject is certainly an interesting one, and
none could be more worthy of the most careful attention. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Kin, Yamei | Add | | | Title: | The Pride of His House: A Story of Honolulu's Chinatown | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN one corner of the picturesque city of Honolulu may be found a home
like so many other Chinese homes of men who have gone abroad to seek
a livelihood. Over the general merchandise and drygoods store of Li
Sing Hing is a suite of apartments reached by a flight of steep stairs,
scarcely more than a ladder. The first room at the head of the stairs is
quite large, and used for a reception room or parlor, and furnished
according to the taste and means of the master. One side was occupied
with an old-fashioned set of three straight chairs and a capacious sofa, all
upholstered in green reps. A grandfather's clock stood in the corner,
slowly ticking the time away. Various chromos such as Wide Awake,
Fast Asleep, Christ Before Pilate and other specimens of European art
adorned the walls, for Ah Sing had a fair knowledge of the English
language, and was considered one of the most enterprising merchants.
Several bright colored carpet rugs were spread over the cool, light
matting. But on the other side of the room Ah Sing had let his soul down
from the mazes of Western civilization which he was earnestly trying to
master by hanging up a couple of scroll pictures in the usual style of
Chinese water-color painting. The landscape scenes reminded him of the
hills around the village from which he had come, and where he hoped
some day his bones might repose beside those of his ancestors. Under
these scrolls stood a pair of beautifully carved teak wood Chinese chairs,
with a small square tea table to match between. The most highly prized
article was a long panel, on which was written a sentence from the
ancient classics. The firm yet graceful lines of the characters made
almost a picture in themselves, and showed a master's scholarly hand.
Every time Ah Sing read the sentiment, "The superior man preserves
harmony," he recalled the face of his old teacher as he amplified the terse
statements of the ancients, and with much note and comment revealed the
full extent of wisdom inclosed; how he had emphasized the duties a man
owed to his ancestors and the obligation to leave a posterity, which
should perform the same duties, so that the spirits of the departed should
not wander homeless and hungry without a son to offer sacrifices to
them. This was to be remembered in the midst of striving for the calm
and dignity that belonged to the superior man. But it was so easy to for-[illustration omitted] get in the new life he was surrounded with,
just as the old green rep sofa was the most natural thing to drop into on
entering the room, rather than the stately carved Chinese chairs. Sundry
pieces of bric-a-brac stood on brackets and what-nots around the room.
Pink and blue Dresden shepherdesses jostled mandarins in full official
costume. A group of the Eight Immortals smiled benignly at terra cotta
figures of dancing girls and a Dutch flute player. But the special article
of pride was a great glass chandelier hung in the middle of the room, full
of many sparkling pendants. These failed to relieve altogether the cold
whiteness which reminded one too forcibly of a funeral; hence, several
little red baskets filled with gay artificial flowers and with red and green
tassels attached, and in addition three or four [illustration omitted] rows
of pink flowered globes off a job lot of hand-lamps that he had bought at
an auction, so that when the chandelier was lighted up the bits of color
made it truly Oriental in effect. Under the chandelier stood a round,
inlaid table also handsomely carved, for the master had prospered in his
business and could afford much more display than he ordinarily made.
The windows overlooked a small back yard filled with rows of pot plants
and a few shrubs, but mostly boxes and things out of the store occupied
the available space. To the left a door ajar showed a kitchen with an
array of brass and copper sauce-pans and an earthen range with its big
hole for the rice pot, and smaller holes for the other things. Wood
chopped fine was piled up ready to stick into the spaces under the holes
to furnish heat to cook with. This was an improved range and had a hood
connected with the chimney in the back, so that no smoke could escape
to blacken the room, as with many of the common ranges. The pictures
of the kitchen god and goddess were pasted up as usual over a small
shelf, bearing an offering of rice and wine and lighted tapers floated in a
cup of nut oil. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Kirkland, Winifred Margaretta | Add | | | Title: | The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers | | | | Published: | 1993 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Some years ago there appeared in the "Atlantic" an
essay entitled "The Joys of Being a Negro." With a
purpose analogous to that of the author, I am moved to
declare the real delights of the apparently
downtrodden, and in the face of a bulky literature
expressive of pathos and protest, to confess frankly
the joys of being a woman. It is a feminist argument
accepted as axiomatic that every woman would be a man
if she could be, while no man would be a woman if he
could help it. Every woman knows this is not fact but
falsehood, yet knows also that it is one of those
falsehoods on which depends the stability of the
universe. The idea that every woman is desirous of
becoming a man is as comforting to every male as its
larger corollary is alarming, namely, that women as a
mass have resolved to become men. The former notion
expresses man's view of femininity, and is flattering;
the latter expresses his view of feminism, and is
fearsome. Man's panic, indeed, before the hosts he
thinks he sees advancing, has lately become so acute
that there is danger of his paralysis. Now his
paralysis would defeat not only the purposes of
feminism, but also the sole purpose of woman's conduct
toward man from Eve's time to ours, a course of which
feminism is only a modern and consistent example. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Knight, Enoch | Add | | | Title: | The Real Artemus Ward | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE above epitaph, written by the genial humorist's mother, one may
read on a marble slab in the little cemetery at Waterford, Oxford
County, Maine,— "Water-ford near Rum-ford," as he used to say, "the
little village that nestled amongst the hills and never did anything but
nestle." It is a charming spot where rest the remains of Charles Farrar
Browne, looking out upon the little lake, and hard by the edge of a
beech and maple wood,
Where ruddy children tumbled in their play,
And lovers came to woo,
in the days when I first knew the place. Born in the same year and in
the same neighborhood as himself, and all the scenes of his early life
being as dear and familiar to me as the songs of the birds or the crests
of the bordering hills, it has seemed partly a duty, as well as a
privilege and pleasure, to add my little contribution to the literature
his career has called forth. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Kropotkin, Peter | Add | | | Title: | Maxím Górky | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | FEW writers have established their reputation so rapidly as
Maxím Górky. His first sketches (1892-95), were
published in an obscure provincial paper of the Caucasus, and were
totally unknown to the literary world, but when a short tale of his
appeared in a widely-read [illustration omitted] review, edited by
Korolénko, it at once attracted general attention. The
beauty of its form, its artistic finish, and the new note of strength
and courage which rang through it, brought the young writer
immediately into prominence. It became known that
Maxím Górky was the pen-name of quite a young
man, A. Pyeshkoff, who was born in 1868 in Nizhni Novgorod, a
large town on the Volga; that his father was a merchant, or an
artisan, his mother a remarkable peasant woman, who died soon
after the birth of her son, and that the boy, orphaned when only
nine, was brought up in a family of his father's relatives. The
childhood of Górky must have been anything but happy, for
one day he ran away and entered into service on a Volga River
steamer. Later he lived and wandered on foot with the tramps in
South Russia, and during these wanderings he wrote a number of
short stories which were published in a newspaper of Northern
Caucasia. The stories proved to be remarkably fine, and when a
collection of all that he had hitherto written was published in 1900,
in four small volumes, the whole of a large edition was sold in a
very short time, and the name of Górky took its place—to
speak of living novelists only—by the side of those of
Korolénko and Tchéhoff, immediately after the
name of Leo Tolstóy. In Western Europe and America his
reputation was made with the same rapidity, as soon as a couple of
his sketches were translated into French and German, and
retranslated into English. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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