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| | 7 | Author: | Lang, Andrew | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Monk of Fife  | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It is not of my own will, nor for my own glory, that I, Norman Leslie,
sometime of Pitcullo, and in religion called Brother Norman, of the Order
of Benedictines, of Dunfermline, indite this book. But on my coming out
of France, in the year of our Lord One thousand four hundred and fifty-
nine, it was laid on me by my Superior, Richard, Abbot in Dunfermline,
that I should abbreviate the Great Chronicle of Scotland, and continue
the same down to our own time. {1} He bade me tell, moreover, all that I
knew of the glorious Maid of France, called Jeanne la Pucelle, in whose
company I was, from her beginning even till her end. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 12 | Author: | Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SUSAN'S impulse was toward the stage. It had become a
definite ambition with her, the stronger because Spenser's
jealousy and suspicion had forced her to keep it a secret, to
pretend to herself that she had no thought but going on
indefinitely as his obedient and devoted mistress. The
hardiest and best growths are the growths inward—where they
have sun and air from without. She had been at the theater
several times every week, and had studied the performances at
a point of view very different from that of the audience. It
was there to be amused; she was there to learn. Spenser and
such of his friends as he would let meet her talked plays and
acting most of the time. He had forbidden her to have women
friends. "Men don't demoralize women; women demoralize each
other," was one of his axioms. But such women as she had a
bowing acquaintance with were all on the stage—in comic
operas or musical farces. She was much alone; that meant many
hours every day which could not but be spent by a mind like
hers in reading and in thinking. Only those who have observed
the difference aloneness makes in mental development, where
there is a good mind, can appreciate how rapidly, how broadly,
Susan expanded. She read plays more than any other kind of
literature. She did not read them casually but was always
thinking how they would act. She was soon making in
imagination stage scenes out of dramatic chapters in novels as
she read. More and more clearly the characters of play and
novel took shape and substance before the eyes of her fancy.
But the stage was clearly out of the question. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 17 | Author: | Abbott, John S. C. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | David Crockett: His Life and Adventures | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The Emigrant.—Crossing the Alleghanies.—The boundless
Wilderness.—The Hut on the Holston.—Life's Necessaries.—The Massacre.—Birth
of David Crockett.—Peril of the Boys.—Anecdote.—Removal to Greenville;
to Cove Creek.—Increased Emigration.—Loss of the Mill.—The Tavern.—Engagement
with the Drover.—Adventures in the Wilderness.—Virtual Captivity.—The
Escape.—The Return.—The Runaway.—New Adventures. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 18 | Author: | Prince, Morton, editor | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Journal of Abnormal Psychology | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE progress in our understanding of hysteria has come largely
through the elaboration of the so-called mechanisms by which the
symptoms arise. These mechanisms have been declared to reside or to
have their origin in the subconsciousness or coconsciousness. The
mechanisms range all the way from the conception of Janet that the
personality is disintegrated owing to lowering of the psychical tension
to that of Freud, who conceives all hysterical symptoms as a result of
dissociation arising through conflicts between repressed sexual desires
and experiences and the various censors organized by the social life.
Without in any way intending to set up any other general mechanism or to
enter into the controversy raging concerning the Freudian mechanism,
which at present is the storm center, the writer reports a case in which
the origin of the symptoms can be traced to a more simple and fairly
familiar mechanism, one which, in its essence, is merely an
intensification of a normal reaction of many women to marital
difficulties. In other words, women frequently resort to measures which
bring about an acute discomfort upon the part of their mate, through his
pity, compassion and self-accusation. They resort to tears as their
proverbial weapon for gaining their point. In this case the hysterical
symptoms seem to have been the substitute for tears in a domestic
battle. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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