| | Author: | Simms
William Gilmore
1806-1870 | Add | | | Title: | The Yemassee  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 | | | | Description: | There is a small section of country now comprised
within the limits of Beaufort District, in the State of
South Carolina, which, to this day, goes by the name
of Indian Land. The authorities are numerous which
show this district, running along, as it does, and on its
southern side bounded by, the Atlantic Ocean, to have
been the very first in North America, distinguished by
an European settlement. The design is attributed to
the celebrated Coligni, Admiral of France,[1]
[1]Dr. Melligan, one of the historians of South Carolina, says farther,
that a French settlement, under the same auspices, was actually
made at Charleston, and that the country received the name of La
Caroline, in honour of Charles IX. This is not so plausible, however,
for as the settlement was made by Huguenots, and under the auspices
of Coligni, it savours of extravagant courtesy to suppose that they
would pay so high a compliment to one of the most bitter enemies
of that religious toleration, in pursuit of which they deserted their
country. Charleston took its name from Charles IL, the reigning
English monarch at the time. Its earliest designation was Oyster
Point town, from the marine formation of its soil. Dr. Hewatt—
another of the early historians of Carolina, who possessed many advantages
in his work not common to other writers, having been a
careful gatherer of local and miscellaneous history—places the first
settlement of Jasper de Coligni, under the conduct of Jean Ribaud, at
the mouth of a river called Albemarle, which, strangely enough, the
narration finds in Florida. Here Ribaud is said to have built a fort,
and by him the country was called Carolina. May river, another
alleged place of original location for this colony, has been sometimes
identified with the St. John's and other waters of Florida or
Virginia; but opinion in Carolina settles down in favour of a stream
still bearing that name, and in Beaufort District, not far from the subsequent
permanent settlement. Old ruins, evidently French in their
origin, still exist in the neighbourhood.
who, in the
reign of Charles IX., conceived the project with the ulterior
view of securing a sanctuary for the Huguenots,
when they should be compelled, as he foresaw they
soon would, by the anti-religious persecutions of the
time, to fly from their native into foreign regions. This
settlement, however, proved unsuccessful; and the
events which history records of the subsequent efforts
of the French to establish colonies in the same neighbourhood,
while of unquestionable authority, have all
the air and appearance of the most delightful romance. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Simms
William Gilmore
1806-1870 | Add | | | Title: | The Yemassee | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 | | | | Description: | Some men only live for great occasions. They
sleep in the calm—but awake to double life, and unlooked-for
activity, in the tempest. They are the
zephyr in peace, the storm in war. They smile until
you think it impossible they should ever do otherwise,
and you are paralyzed when you behold the change
which an hour brings about in them. Their whole life
in public would seem a splendid deception; and as their
minds and feelings are generally beyond those of the
great mass which gathers about, and in the end depends
upon them, so they continually dazzle the vision and
distract the judgment of those who passingly observe
them. Such men become the tyrants of all the rest,
and, as there are two kinds of tyranny in the world,
they either enslave to cherish or to destroy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Myers
P. Hamilton
(Peter Hamilton)
1812-1878 | Add | | | Title: | The young patroon, or, Christmas in 1690 | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 | | | | Description: | More than a hundred and fifty years ago, there
lived, just without the goodly city of New York, but
far within its present precincts, a worthy Dutch
burgher whose name was not Van Corlear. It is
ventured, however, to borrow that venerable patronymic
in his behalf, withholding his real name, lest
some of his irascible descendants, jealous of ancestral
fame, may impugn the verity of those family secrets
which are about to be divulged. This prudential
arrangement in relation to names is intended also to
extend to the other personages mentioned in the
following history; and when thus much of fiction is
so frankly acknowledged, it is hoped that the reader
will be therewith content, and will be willing to concede
to the more material matters the credence they
deserve. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Tyler
Royall
1757-1826 | Add | | | Title: | The Yankey in London | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 | | | | Description: | ACCEPT my warmest thanks for the
letters of introduction you presented me
at parting, and for those transmitted me
by the ship Union; and suffer me, through
you, to make my grateful acknowledgments
to Mr. G. for his very friendly
proffer of making me known to some
“excellent English friends.”—I do assure
you, very few of our countrymen have
left in London such favourable impressions
of the American character as that
gentleman. Indeed, all our United States'
agents have done honour to our national
diplomacy: among them Mr. K. and Mr.
G. will be long distinguished; the former
for the classical elegance of his bureau
address, the latter for his commercial
science—and both for that dignified, polished
demeanour which European gentlemen
will hardly admit can be attained
without the tour of that continent. I
ought, in justice, to observe, that our present
envoy is a gentleman highly esteemed
for the suavity of his manners, and respected
for his adherence to the commercial
rights of his nation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Cooke
John Esten
1830-1886 | Add | | | Title: | The youth of Jefferson, or, A chronicle of college scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 | | | | Description: | ON a fine May morning in the year 1764,—that is to
say, between the peace at Fontainebleau and the
stamp act agitation, which great events have fortunately
no connection with the present narrative,—a young man
mounted on an elegant horse, and covered from head to
foot with lace, velvet, and embroidery, stopped before a
small house in the town or city of Williamsburg, the
capital of Virginia. “You insulted a lady in my presence yesterday evening, and I demand
from you a retraction of all that you uttered. I am not skilled in
writing, but you will understand me. The friend who bears this will
bring your answer. “For you know you begin `Mr. Hoffland!' as if you said, `Stand
and deliver!'—I have read your note, and I am sure I shan't be able to
write half as well. I am so young that, unfortunately, I have never had
an affair, which is a great pity, for I would then know how to write
beautiful long sentences that no one could possibly fail to understand. “Your note is not satisfactory at all. I did not quarrel with your
opinion of yourself, and you know it. I was not foolish enough to be
angry at your declaring that you wer engaged to some lady already.
You spoke of a lady who is my friend, and what you said was insulting. “Stop!—I didn't say I was engaged to any lady: no misunderstanding. “I do not understand your note. You evade my request for an explanation.
I think, therefore, that the shortest way will be to end the
matter at once. “Oh, Mr. Denis, to shoot me in cold blood! Well, never mind! Of
course it's a challenge. But who in the world will be my `friend'?
Please advise me. You know Ernest ought not to—decidedly. He
likes you, and you seemed to like Miss Lucy, who must be a very sweet
girl as she is Ernest's sister. Therefore, as I have no other friend but
Ernest, I should think we might arrange the whole affair without
troubling him. I have been talking with some people, and they say I
have `the choice of weapons'—because you challenged me, you know.
I would rather fight with a sword, I think, than be shot, but I think we
had better have pistols. I therefore suggest pistols, and I have been
reading all about fighting, and can lay down the rules. “Your note is very strange. You ask me to advise you whom to
take as your second; and then you lay down rules which I never
heard of before. I suppose a gentleman can right his grievances without
having to fight first and marry afterwards. What you write is so
much like joking, that I do n't know what to make of it. You seem to
be very young and inexperienced, sir, and you say you have no friend
but Mowbray. “Joking, my dear fellow? Of course I was joking! Did you think
I really was in earnest when I said that I was so handsome, and was engaged
already, et cetera, and so forth, as one of my friends used to say?
I was jesting! For on my sacred word of honor, I am not engaged to
any one—and yet I could not marry Lucy. I am wedded already—to
my own ideas! I am not my own master—and yet I have no mistress! “I am very glad you were joking, and I am glad you have said so
with manly courtesy—though I am at a loss to understand why you
wished to `tease' me. But I do n't take offence, and am sure the whole
matter was a jest. I hope you will not jest with me any more upon
such a subject—I am very hasty; and my experience has told me that
most men that fall in duels, are killed for this very jesting. “Your apology is perfectly satisfactory.—But I forgot! I made
the apology myself! Well, it's all the same, and I am glad we have n't
killed each other—for then, you know, we would have been dead now. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Akutagawa, Ryunosuke | Add | | | Title: | Yarigateke ni nobottaki | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 雑木の暗い林を出ると案内者がここが
赤沢
(
あかざわ
)
ですと言った。暑さと疲れとで目のくらみかかった自分は今まで下ばかり見て歩いていた。じめじめした
苔
(
こけ
)
の間に
鷺草
(
さぎぐさ
)
のような小さな紫の花がさいていたのは知っている。
熊笹
(
くまざさ
)
の折りかさなった中に
兎
(
うさぎ
)
の
糞
(
ふん
)
の白くころがっていたのは知っている。けれどもいったい林の中を通ってるんだか、やぶの中をくぐっているんだかはさっぱり見当がつかなかった。ただむやみに、岩だらけの路を登って来たのを知っているばかりである。それが「ここが赤沢です」と言う声を聞くと同時にやれやれ助かったという気になった。そうして首を上げて、今まで自分たちの通っていたのが、しげった雑木の林だったということを意識した。安心すると急に四方のながめが眼にはいるようになる。目の前には高い山がそびえている。高い山といっても平凡な、高い山ではない。
山膚
(
やまはだ
)
は白っちゃけた灰色である。その灰色に縦横の
皺
(
しわ
)
があって、くぼんだ所は
鼠色
(
ねずみいろ
)
の影をひいている。つき出た所ははげしい真夏の日の光で雪がのこっているのかと思われるほど白く輝いて見える。山の八分がこのあらい灰色の岩であとは黒ずんだ緑でまだらにつつまれている。その緑が縦にＭの字の形をしてとぎれとぎれに山膚を縫ったのが、なんとなく荒涼とした思いを起させる。こんな山が
屏風
(
びょうぶ
)
をめぐらしたようにつづいた上には
浅黄繻子
(
あさぎじゅす
)
のように光った青空がある。青空には熱と光との暗影をもった、溶けそうな白い雲が銅をみがいたように輝いて、紫がかった鉛色の陰を、山のすぐれて高い頂にはわせている。山に囲まれた細長い渓谷は石で一面に埋められているといってもいい。大きなのやら小さなのやら、みかげ石のまばゆいばかりに日に反射したのやら、赤みを帯びたインク
壺
(
つぼ
)
のような形のやら、直八面体の角ばったのやら、ゆがんだ球のようなまるいのやら、立体の数をつくしたような石が、雑然と狭い渓谷の急な斜面に
充
(
み
)
たされている。石の
洪水
(
こうずい
)
。少しおかしいが全く石の洪水という語がゆるされるのならまさしくそれだ。上の方を見上げると一草の緑も、一花の紅もつけない石の連続がずーうっと先の先の方までつづいている。いちばん遠い石は
蟹
(
かに
)
の
甲羅
(
こうら
)
くらいな大きさに見える。それが近くなるに従ってだんだんに大きくなって、自分たちの足もとへ来ては、一間に高さが五尺ほどの鼠色の四角な石になっている。荒廃と
寂寞
(
じゃくまく
)
――どうしても元始的な、人をひざまずかせなければやまないような強い力がこの両側の山と、その間にはさまれた谷との上に動いているような気がする。案内者が「赤沢の小屋ってなアあれですあ」と言う。自分たちの立っている所より少し低い所にくくりまくらのような石がある。それがまたきわめて大きい。動物園の象の足と鼻を切って、胴だけを三つ四つつみ重ねたらあのくらいになるかもしれない。その石がぬっと半ば起きかかった下に
焚火
(
たきび
)
をした跡がある。黒い燃えさしや、白い石がうずたかくつもっていた。あの石の下に寝るんだそうだ。夜中に何かのぐあいであの石が寝がえりを打ったら、下の人間はぴしゃんこになってしまうだろうと思う。渓谷の下の方はこの大石にさえぎられて何も見えぬ。目の前にひろげられたのはただ、長いしかも乱雑な石の排列、頭の上におおいかかるような灰色の山々、そうしてこれらを強く照らす真夏の白い日光ばかりである。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Futabatei, Shimei | Add | | | Title: | Yo ga genbun itchi no yurai | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 言文一致に就いての意見、と、そんな大した研究はまだしてないから、寧ろ一つ懺悔話をしよう。それは、自分が初めて言文一致を書いた由來――もすさまじいが、つまり、文章が書けないから始まったといふ一伍一什の顛末さ。 もう何年ばかりになるか知らん、余程前のことだ。何か一つ書いて見たいとは思ったが、元來の文章下手で皆目方角が分らぬ。そこで、坪内先生の許へ行って、何うしたらよからうかと話して見ると、君は圓朝の落語を知ってゐよう、あの圓朝の落語通りに書いて見たら何うかといふ。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Izumi, Kyoka | Add | | | Title: | Yajiko | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: |
今
（
いま
）
は
然
（
さ
）
る
憂慮
（
きづかひ
）
なし。
大塚
（
おほつか
）
より
氷川
（
ひかは
）
へ
下
（
お
）
りる、たら／＼
坂
（
ざか
）
は、
恰
（
あたか
）
も
芳野世經氏宅
（
よしのせいけいしたく
）
の
門
（
もん
）
について
曲
（
まが
）
る、
昔
（
むかし
）
は
辻斬
（
つじぎり
）
ありたり。こゝに
幽靈坂
（
いうれいざか
）
、
猫又坂
（
ねこまたざか
）
、くらがり
坂
（
ざか
）
など
謂
（
い
）
ふあり、
好事
（
かうず
）
の
士
（
し
）
は
尋
（
たづ
）
ぬべし。
田圃
（
たんぼ
）
には
赤蜻蛉
（
あかとんぼ
）
、
案山子
（
かゝし
）
、
鳴子
（
なるこ
）
などいづれも
風情
（
ふぜい
）
なり。
天
（
てん
）
麗
（
うらゝ
）
かにして
其
（
その
）
幽靈坂
（
いうれいざか
）
の
樹立
（
こだち
）
の
中
（
なか
）
に
鳥
（
とり
）
の
聲
（
こゑ
）
す。
句
（
く
）
になるね、と
知
（
し
）
つた
振
（
ふり
）
をして
聲
（
こゑ
）
を
懸
（
か
）
くれば、
何
（
なに
）
か
心得
（
こゝろえ
）
たる
樣子
（
やうす
）
にて
同行
（
どうかう
）
の
北八
（
きたはち
）
は
腕組
（
うでぐみ
）
をして
少時
（
しばらく
）
默
（
だま
）
る。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Izumi, Kyoka | Add | | | Title: | Yamanote shokei | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 「お
美津
（
みつ
）
、おい、
一寸
（
ちよつと
）
、あれ
見
（
み
）
い。」と
肩
（
かた
）
を
擦合
（
すりあ
）
はせて
居
（
ゐ
）
る
細君
（
さいくん
）
を
呼
（
よ
）
んだ。
旦那
（
だんな
）
、
其
（
そ
）
の
夜
（
よ
）
の
出
（
で
）
と
謂
（
い
）
ふは、
黄
（
き
）
な
縞
（
しま
）
の
銘仙
（
めいせん
）
の
袷
（
あはせ
）
に
白縮緬
（
しろちりめん
）
の
帶
（
おび
）
、
下
（
した
）
にフランネルの
襯衣
（
シヤツ
）
、これを
長襦袢
（
ながじゆばん
）
位
（
くらゐ
）
に
心得
（
こゝろえ
）
て
居
（
ゐ
）
る
人
（
ひと
）
だから、けば／＼しく
一着
（
いつちやく
）
して、
羽織
（
はおり
）
は
着
（
き
）
ず、
洋杖
（
ステツキ
）
をついて、
紺足袋
（
こんたび
）
、
山高帽
（
やまたかばう
）
を
頂
（
いたゞ
）
いて
居
（
ゐ
）
る、
脊
（
せ
）
の
高
（
たか
）
い
人物
（
じんぶつ
）
。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Izumi, Kyoka | Add | | | Title: | Yosoki | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | Japanese Text Initiative | | | | Description: | 加賀の国
黒壁
（
くろかべ
）
は、金沢市の郊外一
里程
（
りてい
）
の処にあり、魔境を
以
（
もっ
）
て
国中
（
こくちゅう
）
に鳴る。
蓋
（
けだ
）
し
野田山
（
のだやま
）
の奥、深林幽暗の地たるに因れり。 | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Add | | | Title: | The Yates Pride | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | OPPOSITE Miss Eudora Yates's old colonial mansion was the perky
modern Queen Anne residence of Mrs. Joseph Glynn. Mrs. Glynn had a
daughter, Ethel, and an un-married sister, Miss Julia Esterbrook. All
three were fond of talking, and had many callers who liked to hear the
feebly effervescent news of Well-wood. This afternoon three ladies
were there: Miss Abby Simson, Mrs. John Bates, and Mrs. Edward Lee.
They sat in the Glynn sitting-room, which shrilled with treble voices as
if a flock of sparrows had settled therein. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Cahan, Abraham | Add | | | Title: | The Younger Russian Writers | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | RUSSIAN critics never cease lamenting the dearth of good
literature. Turgeneff, Dostoyevsky, Pisemsky, Goncharoff, and
Pomialovsky are dead; Tolstoy, the only survivor of the great
constellation of the sixties and seventies, is a very old man and has
"sworn off;" while the younger generation of novelists has so far failed to
produce a single work of lasting value. The productions of the masters
were inspired by the noble enthusiasms of their time: they were the
æsthetic offspring of the abolitionist movement and of the
renaissance which followed the emancipation of the serfs. "Does the
poverty of our literature of to-day denote a lack of ideals?" ask the critics. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Add | | | Title: | Yoshida Yone, Lover | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It was five years since Yoshida Yone had come to New York.
He was essentially a son of New Japan, eager, ambitious,
intensely curious and interested in all pertaining to
learning and advancement. Everything in the Western world at
first enthused and delighted him. He began at once to master
the English language thoroughly, then to study the people.
He adopted their dress, copied their mannerisms and habits,
and even endured the misery of initiating himself into the
mysteries of what his suite termed “barbarous food.” At the
end of three years he was a typical Americanized Japanese. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 | Add | | | Title: | Young Goodman Brown | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | YOUNG Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem
village; but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to
exchange a
parting kiss with his young wife. And Faith, as the wife was aptly
named,
thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play
with the
pink ribbons of her cap while she called to Goodman Brown. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Hen-Toh (Wyandot), B.N.O. Walker | Add | | | Title: | Yon-Doo-Shah-We-Ah (Nubbins), A Modern Text and Facsimile Edition | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In his 1988 essay, Indian/White Relations: A View from the Other Side of
the Frontier, Alfonso Ortiz asserts that American history is written
strictly from the white man's perspective. While an American culture was being
established, the cultures of the Native American were totally distorted. In
fact, the European invaders tried to destroy that culture under the guise of
trying to assimilate or Christianize
the Native American in to the European culture. To have a true history of this
land, the records must be written by all participants. In his essay, Ortiz laid
out a model that would present people with a more accurate view of American
history. Part of that model demanded that the historical values of oral
traditions must be respected. As well, Ortiz felt it the duty of Native
Americans to take on roles as historians and to accept the challenge to seek
out, gather, and present accurate portrayals of history.[1] | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Add | | | Title: | The Yates Pride | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | OPPOSITE Miss Eudora Yates's old colonial mansion was the perky
modern Queen Anne residence of Mrs. Joseph Glynn. Mrs. Glynn had a
daughter, Ethel, and an un-married sister, Miss Julia Esterbrook. All
three were fond of talking, and had many callers who liked to hear the
feebly effervescent news of Well-wood. This afternoon three ladies
were there: Miss Abby Simson, Mrs. John Bates, and Mrs. Edward Lee.
They sat in the Glynn sitting-room, which shrilled with treble voices as
if a flock of sparrows had settled therein. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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