| 83 | Author: | Appleton, Victor | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders | | | Published: | 1997 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | TOM SWIFT, who had been slowly looking
through the pages of a magazine, in the contents
of which he seemed to be deeply interested,
turned the final folio, ruffled the sheets back
again to look at a certain map and drawing, and
then, slapping the book down on a table before
him, with a noise not unlike that of a shot,
exclaimed: | | Similar Items: | Find |
87 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Art Influence in the West | | | Published: | 1997 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | WHOEVER undertakes to discuss art influence brings up sooner or
later at the Greeks. I prefer to begin there, and to begin with that one of
its sources which is not peculiarly Greek, but eternal: I mean with
Greece. Whatever a people may make will resemble the thing that people
look on most; so that the first guess as to what is likely to come out of
any quarter is a knowledge of the land itself, its keen peaks,
round-breasted hills, and bloomy valleys. Greek polity had never so
much to do with the surpassingness of Hellenic art as the one thing the
Hellenes had nothing whatever to do with—the extraordinary beauty of
the land in which they lived. | | Similar Items: | Find |
98 | Author: | Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956 | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-nineties | | | Published: | 1997 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | WHEN a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by
Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for
Soames, Enoch. It was as I feared: he was not there. But everybody else
was. Many writers whom I had quite forgotten, or remembered but
faintly, lived again for me, they and their work, in Mr. Holbrook
Jackson's pages. The book was as thorough as it was brilliantly written.
And thus the omission found by me was an all the deadlier record of poor
Soames's failure to impress himself on his decade. | | Similar Items: | Find |
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