| | 50 | Author: | Cocke, Louisiana Barraud | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Diary and Notes  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The history of all ancient nations is much involved in
obscurity, uncertainty, and contradiction. But as these
adventures of barbarous nations even if they were correctly
recorded could afford no entertainment to men born in a more
cultivated age this uncertainty is not to be regretted. All
Ancient writers agreed in representing the first inhabitants
of Britain as a tribe of Gauls or Belta who setteled that
island from the neighboring continent. The south-east parts
of Britain had allready, before the age of Reason made the
requisite step towards a civil settlement by the
introduction of tillage & agriculture. The other inhabitants
of the island still maintained themselves by pasture. They
were cloathed with the skins of beasts. The religion of the
Britons was one of the most considerable parts of their
government. The Druids who were their priests held great
authority among them. They were the most superstitious
nation in the world at that time. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 51 | Author: | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | An image of a black and white engraving
The illustrator is not identified. The illustration depicts a head
and shoulders portrait of the Ancient Mariner. He is wearing a
brimmed rain hat and rain coat, and his long white hair and beard are
blowing in the wind. His brow furrowed, the Ancient Mariner stares at
something to his left. The words "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
are written in decorative script over the background of the portrait. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 57 | Author: | Cooper, Frederic Taber | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Representative American Story Tellers: Ellen Glasgow. | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Decorative W
WHILE there is not the slightest doubt of Miss Glasgow's title to a place of honour
in a series of papers on the leading story-tellers of America, it must at the same time
be recognised that this particular aspect of her work, if too rigidly adhered to, is
likely to do scant justice to her rather unusual powers. It is, of course, axiomatic
that without some sort of a story we cannot make any sort of a novel; and we cannot
make a strong, big novel without a rather big, strong story as a foundation. And yet
the story alone cannot be used as a measure of bigness, because many other factors
enter in to make up the sum total of any novel destined to live. Some novelists,
however, choose deliberately to subordinate other interests to that of the narrative
they have to tell. Their mastery of technique may be of the best; their philosophy of
life sane and earnest and helpful—yet if they insist upon regarding themselves
primarily as entertainers, and their books as little pocket theatres, then they remain
of their own choice in the ranks of the story-tellers. Miss Glasgow is one of the
small number of American novelists who have chosen to take a higher and finer
attitude toward their work. And that is why it is impracticable, even in a series
bearing the present title, to discuss her place in modern fiction simply from the
stand-point of story-telling. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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