| | 62 | Author: | Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Works of Henry Fielding, Volume Six: Miscellanies  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN it was determined to extend the
present edition of Fielding, not merely
by the addition of Jonathan Wild to the
three universally popular novels, but by two volumes
of Miscellanies, there could be no doubt about
at least one of the contents of these latter. The
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, if it does not rank
in my estimation anywhere near to Jonathan Wild
as an example of our author's genius, is an invaluable
and delightful document for his character
and memory. It is indeed, as has been pointed
out in the General Introduction to this series, our
main source of indisputable information as to
Fielding dans son naturel, and its value, so far as
it goes, is of the very highest. The gentle and
unaffected stoicism which the author displays
under a disease which he knew well was probably,
if not certainly, mortal, and which, whether mortal
or not, must cause him much actual pain and discomfort
of a kind more intolerable than pain itself;
his affectionate care for his family; even little
personal touches, less admirable, but hardly
less pleasant than these, showing an Englishman's
dislike to be "done'' and an Englishman's
determination to be treated with proper respect, are
scarcely less noticeable and important on the biographical
side than the unimpaired brilliancy of
his satiric and yet kindly observation of life and
character is on the side of literature. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 68 | Author: | Gale, Zona | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Friday | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HEMPEL had watched the hands of the clock make all the motions of
the hour, from the trim segment of eleven to the lazy down-stretch of
twenty minutes past, the slim erectness of the half-hour, the
promising angles of the three quarters, ten, five to twelve, and last
the unanimity and consummation of noon. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 73 | Author: | Gorky, Maxim | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Creatures That Once Were Men | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN front of you is the main street, with two rows of miserable
looking huts with shuttered windows and old walls pressing on each other
and leaning forward. The roofs of these time-worn habitations are full
of holes, and have been patched here and there with laths; from underneath
them project mildewed beams, which are shaded by the dusty-leaved
elder-trees and crooked white willows—pitiable flora of those suburbs
inhabited by the poor. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 75 | Author: | Gordon, Irwin L. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Who Was Who: 5000 B.C. to Date:
Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be. | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ADAM[1] (last name unknown), ancestor, explorer,
gardener, and inaugurator of history. Biographers
differ as to his parentage. Born first
Saturday of year 1. Little is known of his childhood.
Education: Self-educated. Entered the
gardening and orchard business when a young
man. Was a strong anti-polygamist. Married
Eve, a close relative. Children, Cain and Abel
(see them). Was prosperous for some years, but
eventually fell prey to his wife's fruitful ambitions.
Lost favor of the proprietor of the garden, and
failed in business. A. started a number of things
which have not been perfected. Diet: Fond of
apples. Recreation: Chess, agriculture. Address:
Eden, General Delivery. Clubs: Member of all
exclusive clubs. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 76 | Author: | Gould, George M., and Walter L. Pyle | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Menstruation has always been of interest, not only to the
student of
medicine, but to the lay-observer as well. In olden times there were many
opinions concerning its causation, all of which, until the era of physiologic
investigation, were of superstitious derivation. Believing menstruation to
be the natural means of exit of the feminine bodily impurities, the ancients
always thought a menstruating woman was to be shunned; her very presence
was deleterious to the whole animal economy, as, for instance, among the
older writers we find that Pliny [1.1]
remarks: "On the approach of a woman
in this state, must will become sour, seeds which are touched by her become
sterile, grass withers away, garden plants are parched up, and the fruit
will fall from the tree beneath which she sits.'' He also says that the
menstruating women in Cappadocia were perambulated about the fields to
preserve the vegetation from worms and caterpillars. According to
Flemming, [1.2] menstrual
blood was believed to be so powerful that the mere
touch
of a menstruating woman would render vines and all kinds of fruit-trees
sterile. Among the indigenous Australians, menstrual superstition was so
intense that one of the native blacks, who discovered his wife lying on his
blanket during her menstrual period, killed her, and died of terror himself
in a fortnight. Hence, Australian women during this season are forbidden
to touch anything that men use. [1.3]
Aristotle said that the very look of a
menstruating woman would take the polish out of a mirror, and the next person
looking in it would be bewitched. Frommann
[1.4] mentions a man who said
he saw a tree in Goa which withered because a catamenial napkin was hung
on it. Bourke remarks that the dread felt by the American Indians in this
respect corresponds with the particulars recited by Pliny. Squaws at the
time of menstrual purgation are obliged to seclude themselves, and in most
instances to occupy isolated lodges, and in all tribes are forbidden to
prepare food for anyone save themselves. It was believed that, were a
menstruating woman to step astride a rifle, a bow, or a lance, the weapon
would
have no utility. Medicine men are in the habit of making a "protective''
clause whenever they concoct a "medicine,'' which is to the effect that the
"medicine'' will be effective provided that no woman in this condition is
allowed to approach the tent of the official in charge. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 78 | Author: | Haldeman-Julius, Emanuel and Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Dust | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | DUST was piled in thick, velvety folds on the
weeds and grass of the open Kansas prairie;
it lay, a thin veil on the scrawny black
horses and the sharp-boned cow picketed near a
covered wagon; it showered to the ground in little
clouds as Mrs. Wade, a tall, spare woman, moved
about a camp-fire, preparing supper in a sizzling
skillet, huge iron kettle and blackened coffee-pot. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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